Zothique Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCBD AAEBED AAEBED AAFBFD| He who has trod the shadows of Zothique | A |
| And looked upon the coal red sun oblique | A |
| Henceforth returns to no anterior land | B |
| But haunts a later coast | C |
| Where cities crumble in the black sea sand | B |
| And dead gods drink the brine | D |
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| He who has known the gardens of Zothique | A |
| Were bleed the fruits torn by the simorgh's beak | A |
| Savors no fruit of greener hemispheres | E |
| In arbors uttermost | B |
| In sunset cycles of the sombering years | E |
| He sips an amaranth wine | D |
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| He who has loved the wild girls of Zothique | A |
| Shall not come back a gentler love to seek | A |
| Nor know the vampire's from the lover's kiss | E |
| For him the scarlet ghost | B |
| Of Lilith from time's last necropolis | E |
| Rears amorous and malign | D |
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| He who has sailed in galleys of Zothique | A |
| And seen the looming of strange spire and peak | A |
| Must face again the sorcerer sent typhoon | F |
| And take the steerer's post | B |
| On far poured oceans by the shifted moon | F |
| Or the re shapen Sign | D |
Clark Ashton Smith
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