At One O'clock In The Morning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKBLMJKBNBG LLO| ome belated and decrepit cabs For a few hours | A |
| we shall have silence if not repose At last the tyranny of the human face has disappeared and I myself shall be the | B |
| only cause of my sufferings | C |
| At last then I am allowed to refresh myself in a bath of darkness First of all a double turn of the lock It | D |
| seems to me that this twist of the key will increase my solitude and fortify the barricades which at this instant | E |
| separate me from the world | F |
| Horrible life Horrible town Let us recapitulate the day seen several men of letters one of whom asked me | G |
| whether one could go to Russia by a land route no doubt he took Russia to be an island disputed generously with | H |
| the editor of a review who to each of my objections replied 'We represent the cause of decent people ' which | I |
| implies that all the other newspapers are edited by scoundrels greeted some twenty persons with fifteen of whom I | J |
| am not acquainted distributed handshakes in the same proportion and this without having taken the precaution of | K |
| buying gloves to kill time during a shower went to see an acrobat who asked me to design for her the costume of a | B |
| Venustra paid court to the director of a theatre who while dismissing me said to me 'Perhaps you would do well to | L |
| apply to Z he is the clumsiest the stupidest and the most celebrated of my authors together with him perhaps | M |
| you would get somewhere Go to see him and after that we'll see ' boasted why of several vile actions which I | J |
| have never committed and faint heartedly denied some other misdeeds which I accomplished with joy an error of | K |
| bravado an offence against human respect refused a friend an easy service and gave a written recommendation to a | B |
| perfect clown oh isn't that enough | N |
| Discontented with everyone and discontented with myself I would gladly redeem myself and elate myself a | B |
| little in the silence and solitude of night Souls of those I have loved souls of those I have sung strengthen me | G |
| support me rid me of lies and the corrupting vapours of the world and you O Lord God grant me the grace to | L |
| produce a few good verses which shall prove to myself that I am not the lowest of men that I am not inferior to | L |
| those whom I despise | O |
Charles Baudelaire
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