A Carcass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LHMB NOPQ RSTU VWXW PYLZ A2B2DB2 C2JD2J E2F2MF2 G2H2I2H2

Remember my love the object we sawA
That beautiful morning in JuneB
By a bend in the path a carcass reclinedC
On a bed sown with pebbles and stonesD
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Her legs were spread out like a lecherous whoreE
Sweating out poisonous fumesF
Who opened in slick invitational styleG
Her stinking and festering wombH
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The sun on this rottenness focused its raysI
To cook the cadaver till doneJ
And render to Nature a hundredfold giftK
Of all she'd united in oneJ
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And the sky cast an eye on this marvellous meatL
As over the flowers in bloomH
The stench was so wretched that there on the grassM
You nearly collapsed in a swoonB
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The flies buzzed and droned on these bowels of filthN
Where an army of maggots aroseO
Which flowed with a liquid and thickening streamP
On the animate rags of her clothesQ
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And it rose and it fell and pulsed like a waveR
Rushing and bubbling with healthS
One could say that this carcass blown with vague breathT
Lived in increasing itselfU
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And this whole teeming world made a musical soundV
Like babbling brooks and the breezeW
Or the grain that a man with a winnowing fanX
Turns with a rhythmical easeW
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The shapes wore away as if only a dreamP
Like a sketch that is left on the pageY
Which the artist forgot and can only completeL
On the canvas with memory's aidZ
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From back in the rocks a pitiful bitchA2
Eyed us with angry distasteB2
Awaiting the moment to snatch from the bonesD
The morsel she'd dropped in her hasteB2
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And you in your turn will be rotten as thisC2
Horrible filthy undoneJ
O sun of my nature and star of my eyesD2
My passion my angel in oneJ
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Yes such will you be o regent of graceE2
After the rites have been readF2
Under the weeds under blossoming grassM
As you moulder with bones of the deadF2
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Ah then o my beauty explain to the wormsG2
Who cherish your body so tineH2
That I am the keeper for corpses of loveI2
Of the form and the essence divineH2

Charles Baudelaire



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