In Mars, What Avatar? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CCCDEED FFAGA HGHG IAEA GJGJGG| In Vishnu land what avatar | A |
| BROWNING | B |
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| Perchance the dying gods of Earth | C |
| Are destined to another birth | C |
| And worn out creeds regain their worth | C |
| In the kindly air of other stars | D |
| What lords of life and light hold sway | E |
| In the myriad worlds of the Milky Way | E |
| What avatars in Mars | D |
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| What Aphrodites from the seas | F |
| That lap the plunging Pleiades | F |
| Arise to spread afar | A |
| The dream that was the soul of Greece | G |
| In Mars what avatar | A |
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| Which hundred moons are wan with love | H |
| For dull Endymions | G |
| Which hundred moons hang tranced above | H |
| Audacious Ajalons | G |
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| What Holy Grail lures errants pale | I |
| Through the wastes of yonder star | A |
| What fables sway the Milky Way | E |
| In Mars what avatar | A |
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| When morning skims with crimson wings | G |
| Across the meres of Mercury | J |
| What dreaming Memnon wakes and sings | G |
| Of miracles on Mercury | J |
| What Christs what avatars | G |
| Claim Mars | G |
Don Marquis
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