The Moonlight Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBC CCCCCC| Above the desert's dark obscured expanse | A |
| The rounded moon uplooms at once laid clear | B |
| The waste leaps on the sight the far and near | B |
| Known equally As in a silver trance | A |
| Its sand agleam the desert lies outrolled | C |
| How bright seen through the burnt out atmosphere | B |
| The moon and the augmented stars appear | B |
| Yet how aloof incurious and cold | C |
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| Silent as they the waste outspreads in white | C |
| Unbroken save where lonely boulders cast | C |
| Their dusky purple shadows on the sand | C |
| Holding Death's terror and its wisdom fast | C |
| Within that silence sinister and bright | C |
| A dead unutterably ancient land | C |
Clark Ashton Smith
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