The Song Of A Comet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBACBDEEBDAFAFFFBD DBAAGAGGBFFAB HBHFFFFFFADFADFFIDIA GGADDADAJAJAAKFAIF| Pale plummet of the stark immensities | A |
| From perished heavens cast I fall and flare | B |
| Through gulfs by stellar orbits girdled round | C |
| And spaces bare | B |
| Of sparkless night between the galaxies | A |
| By path of sun nor circling planet bound | C |
| No star allots my lone and cyclic gyre | B |
| I mark the systems vanish one by one | D |
| Among the swarming worlds I lunge | E |
| And sudden plunge | E |
| Close to the zones of solar fire | B |
| Or ' mid the mighty wrack of stars undone | D |
| Flash and with momentary rays | A |
| Compel the dark to yield | F |
| Their aimless forms whose once far potent blaze | A |
| In ashes chill is now inurned | F |
| Upon the shadowy heavens half revealed | F |
| I show their planets turned | F |
| Whose strange ephemerae | B |
| On adamantine tablets deeply written | D |
| In cities long unlitten | D |
| Have left their history | B |
| And lore beyond redemption or surmise | A |
| Adown contiguous skies | A |
| I pass the thickening brume | G |
| Of systems yet unshaped that hang immense | A |
| Along mysterious shores of gloom | G |
| Or see unimplicated in their doom | G |
| The final and disastrous gyre | B |
| Of blinded suns that meet | F |
| And from their mingled heat | F |
| And battle clouds intense | A |
| Overspread the deep with fire | B |
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| Upon the Lion's track | H |
| Or far beyond the abysms of the Lyre | B |
| I thread through mazes of the zodiac | H |
| Mine orbit placed amid | F |
| The multiple and irised stars or hid | F |
| Unsolved and intricate | F |
| In many a planet swinging sun's estate | F |
| At times I steal in solitary flight | F |
| Along the rim of the exterior night | F |
| That rounds the universe | A |
| And then return | D |
| Past outer footholds of sidereal light | F |
| To see the systems gather and disperse | A |
| And learn | D |
| What vast and multifarious marvels wait | F |
| In the dim void that has no ultimate | F |
| What wraiths of suns extinguished long ago | I |
| On alien welkins burn | D |
| What flaming blossoms grow | I |
| From the black battlefields of cosmic wars | A |
| What stellar hells or ampler spheres sublime | G |
| Enisled in diverse time | G |
| Are wrought from sharded moons and meteors | A |
| And haply I discern | D |
| What paler fires to mine own self akin | D |
| Still haunt the night's eternal corridors | A |
| Or in the toils of great Arcturus spin | D |
| Then restless still I rise | A |
| Through vaults of mightier gloom to watch the dark | J |
| Snatch at the flame of failing suns | A |
| Or mark | J |
| That midden of the stagnant nadir skies | A |
| Where many a fated orbit runs | A |
| An arrow sped from some forgotten bow | K |
| Through change of firmaments and systems sent | F |
| And finding bourn nor bars | A |
| I fly nor know | I |
| For what remoter mark my flight is meant | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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