The Stylite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FGHIJ KBABE LMFBB NBOBD BPABE QADBA| Upon his pillar stands upright | A |
| The rigid anchoret his pose | B |
| Over the desert toward the sky | C |
| Prolongs the rectitude of stone | D |
| The rising and unbroken line | E |
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| Emmets and men go by beneath | F |
| The veering vultures fan his brow | G |
| He sees them not his sanctity | H |
| Enfolds him like the fuming cloud | I |
| A thousand thuribles might yield | J |
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| At evening pass in pompous file | K |
| The larvae sent by Satanas | B |
| To mock him on a pagan height | A |
| The ram pant sagittary stands | B |
| Stallion of maenads half equine | E |
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| And pulsing soft horizons fall | L |
| And swell with forms the heathen shun | M |
| Dark sisters of the Ashtaroth | F |
| That crawl from undescended gulfs | B |
| Or slither over sliding scaurs | B |
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| With kelpy tresses wreathed with foam | N |
| Voluptuous cold Nereides | B |
| Upon the surging desert float | O |
| And Cypris as from out the sea | B |
| Rises reborn with veil nor zone | D |
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| Behind dissolving peristyles | B |
| Lithe sphinxes crouch and rear in rut | P |
| And mincing from Gomorrah's night | A |
| Vague membered gods androgynous | B |
| Invert an ithyphallic sign | E |
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| The reeking shames of Sheol glow | Q |
| And writhe before him Still upright | A |
| The saint exalts the columned stone | D |
| With folden arms and changeless eyes | B |
| In chastity long ankylosed | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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