To George Sterling: A Valediction Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDCEBFB A GHGHFHIFIF A DFDFJFJKJK H KLKLDLDJDJ H MFMFNFNONO H JJJJJJJFJF| I | A |
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| Farewell a late farewell Tearless and unforgetting | B |
| Alone aloof I twine | C |
| Cypress and golden rose plucked at the chill sunsetting | B |
| Laurel amaracus and dark December vine | C |
| Into a garland wove not too unworthily | D |
| For thee who seekest now an asphodel divine | C |
| Though immaterial the leaf and blossom he | E |
| Haply they shall outlinger these the seasons bring | B |
| The seasons take and tell of mortal monody | F |
| Through many a mortal spring | B |
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| II | A |
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| Once more farewell Naught is to do naught is to say | G |
| Naught is to sing but sorrow | H |
| For grievous is the night and dolorous the day | G |
| In this one hell of all the damned we wander thorough | H |
| Thou hast departed and the dog and swine abide | F |
| The fetid fingered ghouls will delve on many a morrow | H |
| In charnel urn and grave the sun shall lantern these | I |
| Oblivious till they too have faltered and have died | F |
| And are no more than pestilential breath that flees | I |
| On air unwalled and wide | F |
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| III | A |
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| Let ape and pig maintain their council and cabal | D |
| In ashes gulfward hurled | F |
| Thou art gone forth with all of loveliness with all | D |
| Of glory long withdrawn from a desertless world | F |
| Now let the loathlier vultures of the soul convene | J |
| They have no wings to follow thee whose flight is furled | F |
| Upon oblivion's nadir or some lost demesne | J |
| Of the pagan dead vaulted with perfume and with fire | K |
| Where blossoms immarcescible in vespertine | J |
| Strange amber air suspire | K |
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| IV | H |
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| Peace peace for grief and bitterness avails not ever | K |
| And sorrow wrongs thy sleep | L |
| Better it is to be as thou who art forever | K |
| As part and parcel of the infinite fair deep | L |
| Who dwellest now in mystery with days hesternal | D |
| And time that is not time we have no need to weep | L |
| For woe may not befall where thou in ways supernal | D |
| Hast found the perfect love that is oblivion | J |
| The poppy tender lips of her that reigns eternal | D |
| In realms not of the sun | J |
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| V | H |
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| Peace peace Idle is our procrastinating praise | M |
| Hollow the harps of laud | F |
| And not necessitous the half begrudg d bays | M |
| To thee whose song forecrowned thee for a lyric god | F |
| Whose name shall linger strangely in the sunset years | N |
| As music from a more enchanted period | F |
| An echo flown upon the changing hemispheres | N |
| Re shaped with breath of alien maiden alien boy | O |
| Re sung in future cities mixed with future tears | N |
| And with remoter joy | O |
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| VI | H |
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| From Aphrodite thou hast turned to Proserpine | J |
| No treason hast thou done | J |
| For neither goddess is a goddess more divine | J |
| And verily my brother are the twain not one | J |
| We too as thou with hushed desire and silent paean | J |
| Beyond the risen dark beyond the fallen sun | J |
| Shall follow her whose pallid breasts on shores Lethean | J |
| Are favorable phares to barges of the world | F |
| And we shall find her there even as the Cytherean | J |
| In love and slumber furled | F |
Clark Ashton Smith
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