Town Lights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IEEI JKKL MEEM| For him who wanders up and down | A |
| Its long familiar streets in autumn nights | B |
| With melancholy meaning shine the lights | B |
| Of the small scattered town | A |
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| Often where lamp bright windows cast | C |
| Their homely splendor forth on tree and lawn | D |
| Strange moths of dream and memory are drawn | D |
| Flown from the ghostly past | C |
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| And kisses faint as falling mist | E |
| Await the wanderer at some old door | F |
| And sorrowful voices crying Nevermore | F |
| From bygone lips he left unkissed | E |
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| What panes illumed by love's own lamp | G |
| Are darkened now or lit by alien hands | H |
| Where friendship sat before the rose red brands | H |
| Comes in the invasive cold and damp | G |
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| Or strangers make oblivious cheer | I |
| Till he that watches dimly from without | E |
| Peels as a leaf blown in the autumn's rout | E |
| From desolate trees foredoomed and sere | I |
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| But still he turns and marks again | J |
| Some aureate lamp that friends have lit afar | K |
| Some radiance with love for inner star | K |
| That burns behind a trellised pane | L |
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| Knowing if it were not for these | M |
| His vagrant soul would haunt a vaster night | E |
| Lit only by the inalienable light | E |
| Of all the quenchless galaxies | M |
Clark Ashton Smith
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