To George Sterling (high) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEEE FGGH IJJI KLLK EBBE| High priest of this our latter Song | A |
| Whose voice sustains her empery | B |
| Far fled beside the western sea | C |
| With ocean tones thy voice is strong | A |
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| And as the spirit of a height | D |
| Whose calm majestic eyes behold | E |
| The lower hills like waves outrolled | E |
| And watch from vantages of light | E |
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| The abysmal surge of heavenly wars | F |
| And know sidereal mirth and pain | G |
| Thou call'st to me who may not gain | G |
| Thy vast horizon of the stars | H |
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| Yet though I breathe a fainter tone | I |
| And bring to Beauty's deathless shrine | J |
| A lesser offering than thine | J |
| Whose blooms in loftier soil are grown | I |
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| Mayhap the note that I have sung | K |
| Obedient to the Muse's call | L |
| Is not in vain the coronal | L |
| Of fragile flowers not voidly flung | K |
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| And this the recompense I find | E |
| To pass a cadence of her lyre | B |
| A flame to feed her alter fire | B |
| And breath on some supernal wind | E |
Clark Ashton Smith
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