The Harlot Of The World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BCCB DCB ECB| O Life thou harlot who beguilest all | A |
| Beautiful in thy house the golden world | B |
| Abidest thou where Powers pinion furled | B |
| And flying Splendors follow to thy call | A |
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| Innumerous like the stars or like the dust | B |
| Nations and monarchs were thy thralls of yore | C |
| Unto the grave's old womb forevermore | C |
| Hast thou betrayed the passion and the lust | B |
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| Fair as the moon of summer is thy face | D |
| And mystical with cloudiness of hair | C |
| Only an eye subornless by delight | B |
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| Shall find within thy phosphorescent gaze | E |
| Those caverns of corruption and despair | C |
| Where the Worm toileth in the charnel night | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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