The Melancholy Pool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEBDEB| Marked by the priesthood of the Night's misrule | A |
| The shadow cowled imprecatory trees | B |
| Cypress that guarded woodland secrecies | B |
| And graves that waited for the delaying ghoul | A |
| Nathless I neared the melancholy pool | A |
| Chief care of all but closlier sentinelled | C |
| By those whose roots were deepest in dead eld | C |
| Where the thwart woven boughs were wet and cool | A |
| As with a mist of poison I drew near | D |
| To mark the tired stars peer dimly down | E |
| Through riven branches from the height of space | B |
| And shudder in those waters with quick fear | D |
| Where in black deeps the pale moon seemed to drown | E |
| A haggard girl with dead despairing face | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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