The Sea-gods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GHIG JKLK AAMA| Beneath the sunset and the sea | A |
| Their coral builded cities be | A |
| They keep an old forgotten reign | B |
| A purple far supremacy | A |
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| The azure girdled suns that roam | C |
| And moons that tread the silvering foam | C |
| Are vague above their ocean vales | D |
| And shaken dawns their evenings dome | C |
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| Their eyes like changing emeralds gleam | E |
| Through gulfs where winy twilights stream | E |
| And with blue weeds their tresses flow | F |
| As in a dark confused dream | E |
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| But often when long afterglows | G |
| In cold and spectral evening close | H |
| On lonely seas they rise and cry | I |
| From foam left grey by sunset's rose | G |
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| Or in the mystic waves and wan | J |
| Hushed by the moon's marmoreal dawn | K |
| They moan as moans the muted surf | L |
| On shores of windless isles withdrawn | K |
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| Known to their dim supremacy | A |
| The deep's forgotten secrets be | A |
| Their old eternal vestures are | M |
| The purples of the flowing sea | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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