The Saturnienne Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBABB CDCDBCBD CAEADEDA FGFGAFAG| Beneath the skies of Saturn pale and many mooned | A |
| Her palace is | B |
| Her wyvern warded spires of celadon enruned | A |
| With names benign and mightier names of malefice | B |
| Illume with saffron phares | B |
| A marish by the black lethargic seas lagooned | A |
| Her dragon holden stairs | B |
| Go down in coiling jet and gold on some unplumbed abyss | B |
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| Long as a leaping flame exalted over ail | C |
| Across the sun | D |
| Her banners bear Aidennic blooms armorial | C |
| And beasts infernal on a field of ciclaton | D |
| Amid her agate courts | B |
| Like to a demon ichor towering proud and tall | C |
| A scarlet fountain spurts | B |
| To fall upon parterres of dwale and deathly hebenon | D |
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| From out her amber windows gazing languidly | C |
| On a weird land | A |
| Where conium and cannabis and upas tree | E |
| Seem wrought in verdigris against the copper sand | A |
| She sees and sees again | D |
| A trailing salt like leprous dragons from the sea | E |
| Far crawled upon the fen | D |
| And foam of monster cloven gulfs beyond a fallow strand | A |
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| Or looking from her turrets to the south and north | F |
| She notes the gleam | G |
| Of molied mountains and of rivers pouring forth | F |
| Clear as the dawn to fail in fulvous rill and stream | G |
| The widening waste amid | A |
| Or swell the fallen meres abominable swarth | F |
| In green mirages hid | A |
| To be the unquested grails of bell of death and deathful dream | G |
Clark Ashton Smith
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