The Nereid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MNNM AJJA| Her face the sinking stars desire | A |
| Unto her place the slow deeps bring | B |
| Shadow of errant winds that wing | B |
| O'er sterile gulfs of foam and fire | A |
| - | |
| Her beauty is the light of pearls | C |
| AII stars and dreams and sunsets die | D |
| To make the fluctuant glooms that lie | D |
| Around her and low noonlight swirls | C |
| - | |
| Down ocean's firmamental deep | E |
| To weave for who glimmers there | F |
| Elusive visions vague and fair | F |
| And night is as a dreamless sleep | E |
| - | |
| She has not known the night's unrest | G |
| Nor the white curse of clearer day | H |
| The tremors of the tempest play | H |
| Like slow delight about her breast | G |
| - | |
| The berylline pallors of her face | I |
| Illume the kingdom of the drowned | J |
| In her the love that none has found | J |
| The unflowering rapture folded grace | I |
| - | |
| Await some lover strayed and lone | K |
| Some god misled who shall not come | L |
| Though the decrescent seas lie dumb | L |
| And sunken in their wells of stone | K |
| - | |
| But nevermore of him perchance | M |
| Her enigmatic musings are | N |
| Whose purpling tresses float afar | N |
| In grottoes of the last romance | M |
| - | |
| Serene an immanence of fire | A |
| She dwells for ever ocean thralled | J |
| Soul of the sea's vast emerald | J |
| Her face the sinking stars desire | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about The Nereid poem by Clark Ashton Smith
Best Poems of Clark Ashton Smith