To Omar Khayyam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEDFGGHFIIJJ KLMLKMNNMBOOBPQRPBBS TUUTTVUVWBBW FHXCCCCBBYYCBBCVCVTT ZZV| Omar within thy scented garden close | A |
| When passed with eventide | B |
| The starward incense of the waning rose | C |
| Too precious to abide | B |
| After the glad and golden death of spring | D |
| Omar thou heardest then | E |
| Above the world of men | E |
| The mournful rumor of an iron wing | D |
| The sough and sigh of desolating years | F |
| Whereof the wind is as the winds that blow | G |
| Out of a lonesome land of night and snow | G |
| Where timeless winter weeps with frozen tears | H |
| And in thy bodeful ears | F |
| The brief and tiny lisp | I |
| Of petals curled and crisp | I |
| Fallen at eve in Persia's mellow clime | J |
| Was mingled with the mighty sound of time | J |
| - | |
| Omar thou knewest well | K |
| How the fair days are sorrowful and strange | L |
| With time's inexorable mystery | M |
| And terror ineluctable of change | L |
| Upon thine eyes the bleak and bitter spell | K |
| Of vision thou didst see | M |
| As in a magic glass | N |
| The moulded mists and painted shadows pass | N |
| The ghostly pomps we name reality | M |
| And lo the level field | B |
| With broken fane and throne | O |
| And dust of old unfabled cities sown | O |
| In unremembering years was made to yield | B |
| From out the shards of Power | P |
| The pillars frail and small | Q |
| That lift for capital | R |
| The blood like bubble of the poppy flower | P |
| And crowns were crumbled for the airy gold | B |
| The crocus and the daffodil should hold | B |
| As inalienable dower | S |
| Before thy gaze the sad unvaried green | T |
| The cypresses like robes funereal wear | U |
| Was woven on the gradual looms of air | U |
| From threadbare silk and tattered sendaline | T |
| That clothed some ancient queen | T |
| And from the spoilt vermilion of her mouth | V |
| The myrtles rose and from her ruined hair | U |
| And eyes that held the summer's ardent drouth | V |
| In blown disrooted bowers | W |
| And amber limbs and breast | B |
| Through ancient nights by sleepless love oppressed | B |
| Or by the iron flight of loveless hours | W |
| - | |
| Knowing the weary wisdom of the years | F |
| The empty truth of tears | H |
| The suns of June that with some great excess | X |
| Of ardor slay the unabiding rose | C |
| And grey haired winter wan and fervorless | C |
| For whom no flower grows | C |
| Seeing the paradisal bloom that pales | C |
| On orient snows untrod | B |
| In magic morns that grant | B |
| Across a land of common green and grey | Y |
| The disenchanted day | Y |
| Knowing the gulf deep veils | C |
| And walls of adamant | B |
| That ward the darkling verities of God | B |
| Knowing these things ah surely thou wert wise | C |
| To kiss on ardent breast and avid mouth | V |
| Some girl whose eyes | C |
| Were golden with the sun belov d south | V |
| To pluck the rose and drain the rose red wine | T |
| In gardens half divine | T |
| Before the broken cup | Z |
| Be filled and covered up | Z |
| In dusty seas of everlasting drouth | V |
Clark Ashton Smith
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