Wizard's Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACBDECEADFGAH HGIIGHHJJKHALKHHLAHM NONODD| O 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 |
| Within your tender hands | C |
| 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 beauty'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 for ever 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 |
| Amid the madness of 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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