A Phantom Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGEH IJE KLE M EANE EOEM PQE RST L EEUV WXEE EYE ZA2B2 E C2AD2G E2EF2G2 EH2I2 EEE| I The Blackness | A |
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| In vaults of fathomless obscurity | B |
| Where Destiny has sentenced me for life | C |
| Where cheerful rosy beams may never shine | D |
| Where living with that sullen hostess Night | E |
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| I am an artist that a mocking God | F |
| Condemns alas to paint the gloom itself | G |
| Where like a cook with ghoulish appetite | E |
| I boil and devour my own heart | H |
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| Sometimes there sprawls and stretches out and glows | I |
| A splendid ghost of a surpassing charm | J |
| And when this vision growing in my sight | E |
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| In oriental languor like a dream | K |
| Is fully formed I know the phantom's name | L |
| Yes it is She though black yet full oflight | E |
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| II The Perfume | M |
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| During your lifetime reader have you breathed | E |
| Slow savouring to the point of dizziness | A |
| That grain of incense which fills up a church | N |
| Or the pervasive musk of a sachet | E |
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| Magical charm in which the past restored | E |
| Intoxicates us with its presence here | O |
| So from the body of his well beloved | E |
| The lover plucks remembrance's bright bloom | M |
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| Out of the phantom's dense resilient locks | P |
| Living sachet censer of the alcove | Q |
| Would rise an alien and tawny scent | E |
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| And all her clothes of muslin or of plush | R |
| Redolent as they were with her pure youth | S |
| Released the soft perfume of thickest fur | T |
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| III The Frame | L |
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| Just as the frame adds to the painter's art | E |
| Although the brush itself be highly praised | E |
| A something that is captivating strange | U |
| Setting it off from all in nature else | V |
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| So jewels and metals gildings furnishings | W |
| Exactly fit her rich and rare appeal | X |
| Nothing offends her perfect clarity | E |
| And all would seem a frame for her display | E |
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| And one could say at times that she believed | E |
| Everything loved her in that she would bathe | Y |
| Freely voluptuously her nudity | E |
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| In kisses of the linen and the silk | Z |
| And with each charming movement slow or quick | A2 |
| Display a cunning monkey's childlike grace | B2 |
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| IV The Portrait | E |
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| Disease and Death make only dust and ash | C2 |
| Of all the fire that blazed so bright for us | A |
| Of those great eyes so tender and so warm | D2 |
| Of this mouth where my heart has drowned itself | G |
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| Of kisses puissant as a healing balm | E2 |
| Of transports more intense than flaring light | E |
| What now remains Appalling o my soul | F2 |
| Only a fading sketch in three pale tones | G2 |
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| Like me dying away in solitude | E |
| And which Time that maleficent old man | H2 |
| Each day rubs over with his churlish wing | I2 |
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| Time you black murderer of Life and Art | E |
| You'll never kill her in my memory | E |
| Not She who was my pleasure and my pride | E |
Charles Baudelaire
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