Allegory Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFFGGHIJJFKLM| Picture a beauty shoulders rich and fine | A |
| Letting her long hair trail into her wine | A |
| Talons of love the poison tooth of sin | B |
| Slip and are dulled against her granite skin | B |
| She laughs at Death and flouts Debauchery | C |
| Those fiends who in their heavy pleasantries | D |
| Gouge and destroy still keep a strange regard | E |
| For majesty her body strong and hard | E |
| A goddess or a sultan's regal wife | F |
| A faithful Paynim of voluptuous life | F |
| Her eyes call mortal beings to the charms | G |
| Of ready breasts between her open arms | G |
| She feels she knows this maid this barren girl | H |
| By our desire fit to move the world | I |
| The gift of body's beauty is sublime | J |
| And draws forgiveness out of every crime | J |
| She knows no Hell or any afterlife | F |
| And when her time shall come to face the Night | K |
| She'll meet Death like a newborn face to face | L |
| In innocence with neither guilt nor hate | M |
Charles Baudelaire
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