The City Of Darkness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DBEB FBGB HBIB JBKB LBMB EBNB OBBB NBPN| Wide walled it stands in heathen lands | A |
| Beside a mystic sea | B |
| With streets strange trod of many a god | C |
| And templed blasphemy | B |
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| Far in the night a rose of light | D |
| It shines beside the sea | B |
| But overhead an unknown dread | E |
| Impends eternally | B |
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| There is a sound above around | F |
| Of music by the sea | B |
| And weird and wide the torches glide | G |
| Of pagan revelry | B |
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| There is a noise as of a voice | H |
| That calls beneath the sea | B |
| And all the deep grows pale with sleep | I |
| And vague expectancy | B |
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| Then slowly up as from a cup | J |
| Seethes poison lifts the sea | B |
| Wild mass on mass as in black glass | K |
| The town glows fiery | B |
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| Red lit it glowers like Hell's dark towers | L |
| Set in the iron sea | B |
| And monster swarms with awful forms | M |
| Roll though it cloudily | B |
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| Still overhead the unknown dread | E |
| Whose shadow dyes the sea | B |
| At wrath winged wait behind its gate | N |
| Till God shall set it free | B |
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| A taloned flash an earthquake crash | O |
| And lo upon the sea | B |
| Black wall on wall a giant pall | B |
| Night settles hideously | B |
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| And where it burned a rose inurned | N |
| Red in the vasty sea | B |
| The phantasm of the dread above | P |
| Sits in immensity | N |
Madison Julius Cawein
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