A Former Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC ADDA AEE AFF| Long since I lived beneath vast porticoes | A |
| By many ocean sunsets tinged and fired | B |
| Where mighty pillars in majestic rows | A |
| Seemed like basaltic caves when day expired | C |
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| The rolling surge that mirrored all the skies | A |
| Mingled its music turbulent and rich | D |
| Solemn and mystic with the colours which | D |
| The setting sun reflected in my eyes | A |
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| And there I lived amid voluptuous calms | A |
| In splendours of blue sky and wandering wave | E |
| Tended by many a naked perfumed slave | E |
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| Who fanned my languid brow with waving palms | A |
| They were my slaves the only care they had | F |
| To know what secret grief had made me sad | F |
Charles Baudelaire
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