The Isle Of Saturn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DDEFG HIEDG JKLMM GMMNM MDGMM MGOMM EMPEG DGMMG| In one of these islands the barbarians | A |
| feign that Saturn is held prisoner by Zeus | B |
| Plutarch | C |
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| Say what seer what poet has beheld Saturnia | D |
| Clio or Euterpe tell if this you know | D |
| Zones of guardian storm unslackening sempiternal | E |
| Doldrums of the flat untraversable foam | F |
| Drive the encroaching keels to leeward | G |
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| So no sailor glimpses it no chart includes | H |
| Never yet has man profaned it never printed | I |
| Xanthic sands whereover duskier flames the blue | E |
| For tall marble cliffs whereon the hippogriffin | D |
| Rears his head and gazes seaward | G |
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| Unalarmed and all replete with grainy grasses | J |
| Slant with wind and drenched by spindrift walls of cypress | K |
| Closely ward untended crofts where mellowed apples | L |
| Fall not from the bough to break the cyclic silence | M |
| Of a mighty myth that slumbers | M |
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| There in calamus and the lush hemlock matted | G |
| By the muffled windings of unmumurous streams | M |
| Black gigantic swans that winter in strange planets | M |
| Age to age returning make their nests and rear | N |
| Shadowy broods that no one numbers | M |
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| There the dragon mother couched amid the boulders | M |
| High on rugged fells that rim the smoothed main | D |
| Hatches out her blotched and horny young with folded | G |
| Wings that open soon in fluttered brief essays | M |
| Tumbling on the downs and tors | M |
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| Darkly in the gaunt and gleamless mountain sides | M |
| Drowse the metals for the mail of gods rewakened | G |
| And the trees of savage forests hold on high | O |
| Still unshapen hafts of Titan battle maces | M |
| To be wielded in vast wars | M |
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| Stretched between two peaks within a lea wide valley | E |
| Saturn slumbering heals his wounds through halcyon cycles | M |
| Rains and dews like balm anoint him wild grapes clamber | P |
| Over him with ripening clusters and black ivy | E |
| Plaits his golden beard uncombed | G |
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| Others there are sleeping Will they haply waken | D |
| Monstrous phantoms striding down from fell and highland | G |
| Crawling like to rivered lava through the dale beds | M |
| Gods who rose and reigned and died before the Titans | M |
| Lying in topless tombs undomed | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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