The Twilight Of The Gods Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FGFG GBGB BHBH IBIB| All the satyrs have been dehorned | A |
| And wappened are Mohammed's houris | B |
| Pluto lies supremely corned | A |
| Amid the snakeless Furies | B |
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| Every mermaiden I have seen | C |
| Was sunning her hams in a bathing suit | A |
| Melpomene is on the screen | C |
| Pan is tootling a night club flute | A |
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| The jinnees all are in the jug | D |
| I mean the kind with a seal and Stopper | E |
| The famous flying Arabian rug | D |
| Has somewhere come a cropper | E |
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| Great Hercules by mail doth sell | F |
| Lessons for building muscles rightly | G |
| But the witch of Endor is doing well | F |
| With seances given nightly | G |
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| The Golden Fleece a trifle crummy | G |
| Hangs in a shop with three gold spheres | B |
| Apollo is a dry goods dummy | G |
| Atropos wields a sempstress' shears | B |
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| Adonis runs a bill at the tailor's | B |
| Diana hunts the genus homo | H |
| The Cyprian goddess is chiseling sailors | B |
| In a dive with a Bouguereau chromo | H |
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| Old Pegasus that spavined nag | I |
| Is out to grass with the cows and hinnies | B |
| While Bacchus has gone on another jag | I |
| At Angelo's or Dinny's | B |
Clark Ashton Smith
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