Tolometh Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DDEFGE AAEAAE HHDAAD AAAEEA HIABBA| In billow lost Posedonis | A |
| I was the black god of the abyss | A |
| My three horns were of similor | B |
| Above my double diadem | C |
| My one eye was a moon bright gem | C |
| Found in a monstrous meteor | B |
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| Incredible far peoples came | D |
| Called by the thunders of my fame | D |
| And passed before my terraced throne | E |
| Where titan pards and lions stood | F |
| As pours a never lapsing flood | G |
| Before the winds of winter blown | E |
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| Below my glooming architraves | A |
| One brown eternal file of slaves | A |
| Came in from mines of chalcedon | E |
| And camels from the long plateaus | A |
| Laid down their sard and peridoz | A |
| Their incense and their cinnamon | E |
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| The star born evil that I brought | H |
| Through all the ancient land was wrought | H |
| All women took my yoke of shame | D |
| I reared through sumless centuries | A |
| The thrones of hell black wizardries | A |
| The hecatombs of blood and flame | D |
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| But now within my sunken walls | A |
| The slow blind ocean serpent crawls | A |
| And sea worms are my ministers | A |
| And wandering fishes pass me now | E |
| Or press before mine eyeless brow | E |
| As once the thronging worshippers | A |
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| And yet in ways outpassing thought | H |
| Men worship me that know me not | I |
| They work my will I shall arise | A |
| In that last dawn of atom fire | B |
| To stand upon the planet's pyre | B |
| And cast my shadow on the skies | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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