The Night Forest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCCEFGHIJCJKCCCL CMANOPQCRSCTUAMVC WXMYCCZ| Incumbent seemingly | A |
| On the serrate points of peaks | B |
| That end the visible west | C |
| The rounded moon yet floods | D |
| The valleys hitherward | C |
| With fall of torrential light | C |
| Ere from the overmost | C |
| Dividing mountain cusp | E |
| She slip to the lower dark | F |
| But here on an eastward slope | G |
| Pointed and thick with its pine | H |
| The forest scarcely remembers | I |
| Her light that is gone as a vision | J |
| Or ecstasy too poignant | C |
| And perilous for duration | J |
| Withdrawn in what darker web | K |
| Or dimension of dream I know not | C |
| in silence pre occupied | C |
| And solemnest rectitude | C |
| The pines uprear and no sigh | L |
| For the rapture of moonlight past | C |
| Comes from their bosom of boughs | M |
| Far in their secrecy | A |
| I stand and the burdenous dusk | N |
| Dull but at times made keen | O |
| With tingle of fragrances | P |
| Falls on me as a veil | Q |
| Between my soul and the world | C |
| What veil of trance O pines | R |
| Divides you from my soul | S |
| That I feel but enter not | C |
| Your distances of dream | T |
| Ah strange imperative sense | U |
| Of world deep mystery | A |
| That shakes from out your boughs | M |
| A fragrance keener still | V |
| Piercing the inner mind | C |
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| The wind shall question you | W |
| Of the dream I may not gain | X |
| And all its somberness | M |
| And depth immeasurable | Y |
| Shall tremble away in sound | C |
| Of speech not understood | C |
| That my heart must break to hear | Z |
Clark Ashton Smith
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