Yerba Buena Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB BCBC CDCE DFEF FGFG GAGAThe fragrant leaf and small white flower | A |
The fragile wreath my fingers twined | B |
Amid your fleece in some lost hour | A |
Flown seaward with the summer wind | B |
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The fragile wreath my fingers twined | B |
Still wafts a perfume wild and sweet | C |
Flown seaward with the summer wind | B |
Within that place where laurels meet | C |
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Still wafts a perfume wild and sweet | C |
Crushed by the limbs and breasts of love | D |
Within that place where laurels meet | C |
Amid the ocean fronting grove | E |
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Crushed by the limbs and breasts of love | D |
Ever it mounts from bygone days | F |
Amid the ocean fronting grove | E |
Where summer comes but never stays | F |
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Ever it mounts from bygone days | F |
The wild sweet memory we share | G |
Where summer comes but never stays | F |
Drunk with a philter laden air | G |
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The wild sweet memory we share | G |
Amid your fleece in some lost hour | A |
Drunk with a philter laden air | G |
The fragrant leaf and small white flower | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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