The Potion Of Dreams Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFGHFG| What occult Circe of the hours of sleep | A |
| Mixeth the Cup of Dreams with potent art | B |
| How doth the sorceress cunningly impart | B |
| To it such wondrous virtues and where steep | A |
| That powerful potion Opium poppies' brew | C |
| Nor hasheesh from far India's mystic land | D |
| Have not such properties nor can command | D |
| Visions of more fantastic form and hue | C |
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| Pleasure and pain in mingling mystical | E |
| Are in that cup There past and present meet | F |
| With pageantry of earthly sights and sounds | G |
| Abysses bottomless heights that appall | H |
| With plainlands infinite about their feet | F |
| And seas horizonless lie in its bounds | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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