Clark Ashton Smith

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The Night Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCCEFGHIJCJKCCCL CMANOPQCRSCTUAMVC WXMYCCZ

Incumbent seeminglyA
On the serrate points of peaksB
That end the visible westC
The rounded moon yet floodsD
The valleys hitherwardC
With fall of torrential lightC
Ere from the overmostC
Dividing mountain cuspE
She slip to the lower darkF
But here on an eastward slopeG
Pointed and thick with its pineH
The forest scarcely remembersI
Her light that is gone as a visionJ
Or ecstasy too poignantC
And perilous for durationJ
Withdrawn in what darker webK
Or dimension of dream I know notC
in silence pre occupiedC
And solemnest rectitudeC
The pines uprear and no sighL
For the rapture of moonlight pastC
Comes from their bosom of boughsM
Far in their secrecyA
I stand and the burdenous duskN
Dull but at times made keenO
With tingle of fragrancesP
Falls on me as a veilQ
Between my soul and the worldC
What veil of trance O pinesR
Divides you from my soulS
That I feel but enter notC
Your distances of dreamT
Ah strange imperative senseU
Of world deep mysteryA
That shakes from out your boughsM
A fragrance keener stillV
Piercing the inner mindC
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The wind shall question youW
Of the dream I may not gainX
And all its sombernessM
And depth immeasurableY
Shall tremble away in soundC
Of speech not understoodC
That my heart must break to hearZ

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