Wizard's Love (latter Manuscript Version) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDECFEADFGAH HGIIGHHJJKHALKHHLAHM NONODDO perfect love unhoped for past despair | A |
I had not thought to find | B |
Your face betwixt the terrene earth and air | A |
But deemed you lost in fabulous old lands | C |
And rose lit years to darkness long resigned | B |
O child you cannot know | D |
What magic and what miracles you bring | E |
Between your dulcet breasts your tender hands | C |
What lethal wound your balmy lips have healed | F |
What griefs are lulled to blissful slumbering | E |
Cushioned upon your deep and fragrant hair | A |
What gall black bitterness of long ago | D |
Within my bosom sealed | F |
Ebbs gradually as might some desert well | G |
Under your body's heaven warm and fair | A |
And the green suns of your vertumnal eyes | H |
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O beauty wrought of rapture and surprise | H |
Too dear for heart to know or tongue to tell | G |
Now more and more you seem | I |
Fantasy turned to flesh incarnate dream | I |
Surely I called you with consummate spell | G |
In desperate forgotten wizardries | H |
With signs and sigils of dead goeties | H |
And evocations born of blood and pain | J |
But deemed forever vain | J |
Surely you came to me of yore among | K |
The teeming specters amorous | H |
With faces veiled and splendid bosoms bare | A |
That turned my sleep to fever and delight | L |
In ever desolate years when love was young | K |
Or I perchance | H |
Begot you on some golden succubus | H |
That writhed beneath me through the Sabbat's night | L |
In earlier lives forevowed to Satanry | A |
And sorcerous dark romance | H |
For all your heart and flesh are sib to me | M |
And in my soul's profound | N |
Your face an irrecoverable pearl | O |
Is ultimately drowned | N |
So thus delicious girl | O |
Whether love's destiny be weal or woe | D |
I hold you now and shall not let you go | D |
Clark Ashton Smith
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