The Old Water-wheel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDEC FGGF HIIH JKKJ| Often on homeward ways I come | A |
| To a deserted orchard old and lone | B |
| Unplowed untrod with wilding grasses grown | B |
| Through rows of pear and plum | A |
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| There in a never ceasing round | C |
| In the slow stream by noon by night by dawn | D |
| An ancient hidden water wheel turns on | E |
| With a sad reiterant sound | C |
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| Most eerily it comes and dies | F |
| And comes again when on the horizon's breast | G |
| The ruby of Antares seems to rest | G |
| Fallen from star fraught skies | F |
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| A dolent drear complaining note | H |
| Whose all monotonous cadence haunts the air | I |
| Like the recurrent moan of a despair | I |
| Some heart has learned by rote | H |
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| Heavy and ill to hear for one | J |
| Within whose breast today tonight tomorrow | K |
| Like the slow wheel an ancient darkling sorrow | K |
| Turns and is never done | J |
Clark Ashton Smith
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