Tin Can On The Mountain-top Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEAFGBHIJCCKDADL DMLCNDCCCICCCCLCDBC| Tomato can of thee I sing | A |
| bright beacon of liberty and civilization | B |
| harbinger of progress | C |
| left by the picnicker | D |
| among the millenial junipers and glacier moulded granites | C |
| on Donner's peak | E |
| Insouciantly you lean with label already peeling | A |
| in gaudy green and crimson decolletage | F |
| to reveal your rondure dimpled slightly here and there by dents but otherwise perfect | G |
| and suggesting with futuristic provocation | B |
| and cylindrical breast form of a strip teasing robot | H |
| The wind that ancient lecher plays with the label | I |
| and it falls away like a slip | J |
| from around your dazzling flanks | C |
| Profulgently you glitter like the wings of planes | C |
| over Hispania or China | K |
| or like the Coit tower | D |
| on a fogless morning | A |
| In you we behold the ultimate avatar | D |
| of stellar slag and neutrons long dissolved | L |
| into nebulous vapor | D |
| in you the transgalactic goal | M |
| of atoms endlessly broken and re alchemized | L |
| in the dark laboratory of time and space | C |
| by the demiurge who wears the night for mask | N |
| In you the mystic ore | D |
| immured by subterranean gloom for aeons | C |
| and carried obscurely by the womb of worlds | C |
| as they wandered on through gulfs and light years | C |
| in you the oft remolten and star pregnant metal | I |
| briefly gleams refracting all the solar rays | C |
| and batting back the electrons from the sun spots | C |
| and riddled by all the cosmic and ultra cosmic and infra cosmic and other cosmic radiations | C |
| But soon too soon your glory tarnishes | C |
| and the spots and mottlings and zones of stannic oxide | L |
| will damascene you with their rufous arabesques | C |
| with their brownish nacarat and ruddled umber | D |
| until you lapse in Huysmanesque corrosion | B |
| colored and surfaced like the planet Mars | C |
Clark Ashton Smith
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