A Carcass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LHMB NOPQ RSTU VWXW PYLZ A2B2DB2 C2JD2J E2F2MF2 G2H2I2H2Remember my love the object we saw | A |
That beautiful morning in June | B |
By a bend in the path a carcass reclined | C |
On a bed sown with pebbles and stones | D |
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Her legs were spread out like a lecherous whore | E |
Sweating out poisonous fumes | F |
Who opened in slick invitational style | G |
Her stinking and festering womb | H |
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The sun on this rottenness focused its rays | I |
To cook the cadaver till done | J |
And render to Nature a hundredfold gift | K |
Of all she'd united in one | J |
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And the sky cast an eye on this marvellous meat | L |
As over the flowers in bloom | H |
The stench was so wretched that there on the grass | M |
You nearly collapsed in a swoon | B |
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The flies buzzed and droned on these bowels of filth | N |
Where an army of maggots arose | O |
Which flowed with a liquid and thickening stream | P |
On the animate rags of her clothes | Q |
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And it rose and it fell and pulsed like a wave | R |
Rushing and bubbling with health | S |
One could say that this carcass blown with vague breath | T |
Lived in increasing itself | U |
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And this whole teeming world made a musical sound | V |
Like babbling brooks and the breeze | W |
Or the grain that a man with a winnowing fan | X |
Turns with a rhythmical ease | W |
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The shapes wore away as if only a dream | P |
Like a sketch that is left on the page | Y |
Which the artist forgot and can only complete | L |
On the canvas with memory's aid | Z |
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From back in the rocks a pitiful bitch | A2 |
Eyed us with angry distaste | B2 |
Awaiting the moment to snatch from the bones | D |
The morsel she'd dropped in her haste | B2 |
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And you in your turn will be rotten as this | C2 |
Horrible filthy undone | J |
O sun of my nature and star of my eyes | D2 |
My passion my angel in one | J |
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Yes such will you be o regent of grace | E2 |
After the rites have been read | F2 |
Under the weeds under blossoming grass | M |
As you moulder with bones of the dead | F2 |
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Ah then o my beauty explain to the worms | G2 |
Who cherish your body so tine | H2 |
That I am the keeper for corpses of love | I2 |
Of the form and the essence divine | H2 |
Charles Baudelaire
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