The Knoll Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBA CCBBC DDEED FFBBF BBGHB IIJKI| All rimmed around with halcyon skies | A |
| Filled with blue air and butterflies | A |
| Mightily arched and intervalled | B |
| And leaved with solemn emerald | B |
| The century lichened oaks arise | A |
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| From this high knoll against the brine | C |
| Like those about Dodona's shrine | C |
| For here Apollo still is god | B |
| And living dryads tread the sod | B |
| And love is Grecian and divine | C |
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| Not hidden with sad dreams of ill | D |
| Where Venus holds her vaulted hill | D |
| For us the two for us the three | E |
| Here dwells the fair antiquity | E |
| Glad and august and pagan still | D |
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| And here how often has the sun | F |
| Brightened on breast and hair of One | F |
| But never has the sun or shade | B |
| Amply and long enough delayed | B |
| For love that dreads oblivion | F |
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| What shall the sealed horizons hold | B |
| For us on future hills untold | B |
| The three the two that tarried here | G |
| Through azure mornings hushed and dear | H |
| And afternoons of forfeit gold | B |
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| Haply by some dark ocean stream | I |
| These days shall dawn again in dream | I |
| Through films of distance and of tears | J |
| We shall behold in wintered years | K |
| These butterflies that flit and gleam | I |
Clark Ashton Smith
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