Be Drunk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCDEFGHIJCCK| You have to be always drunk That's all there is to it it's the | A |
| only way So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks | B |
| your back and bends you to the earth you have to be continually | C |
| drunk | D |
| But on what Wine poetry or virtue as you wish But be | C |
| drunk | D |
| And if sometimes on the steps of a palace or the green grass of | E |
| a ditch in the mournful solitude of your room you wake again | F |
| drunkenness already diminishing or gone ask the wind the wave | G |
| the star the bird the clock everything that is flying everything | H |
| that is groaning everything that is rolling everything that is | I |
| singing everything that is speaking ask what time it is and | J |
| wind wave star bird clock will answer you It is time to be | C |
| drunk So as not to be the martyred slaves of time be drunk be | C |
| continually drunk On wine on poetry or on virtue as you wish | K |
Charles Baudelaire
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