Beacons Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGD HIJD KLMH LNOP QRST UVLU WHHE HXHX HHHH LLYL E Z| Reubens river of forgetfulness garden of sloth | A |
| Pillow of wet flesh that one cannot love | B |
| But where life throngs and seethes without cease | C |
| Like the air in the sky and the water in the sea | D |
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| Leonardo da Vinci sinister mirror | E |
| Where these charming angels with sweet smiles | F |
| Charged with mystery appear in shadows | G |
| Of glaciers and pines that close off the country | D |
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| Rembrandt sad hospital full of murmurs | H |
| Decorated only with a crucifix | I |
| Where tearful prayers arise from filth | J |
| And a ray of winter light crosses brusquely | D |
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| Michelangelo a wasteland where one sees Hercules | K |
| Mingling with Christ and rising in a straight line | L |
| Powerful phantoms that in the twilight | M |
| Tear their shrouds with stretching fingers | H |
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| Rage of a boxer impudence of a faun | L |
| You who gather together the beauty of the boor | N |
| Your big heart swelling with pride at man defective and yellow | O |
| Puget melancholy emperor of the poor | P |
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| Watteau this carnival of illustrious hearts | Q |
| Like butterflies errant and flamboyant | R |
| In the cool decor with delicate lightning in the chandeliers | S |
| Crossing the madness of the twirling ball | T |
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| Goya nightmare of unknown things | U |
| Fetuses roasting on the spit | V |
| Harridans in the mirror and naked children | L |
| Tempting demons by loosening their stockings | U |
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| Delacroix haunted lake of blood and evil angels | W |
| Shaded by evergreen forests of dark firs | H |
| Where under a grieving sky strange fanfares | H |
| Pass like a gasping breath of Weber | E |
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| These curses these blasphemies these moans | H |
| These ecstasies these tears these cries of Te Deum | X |
| Are an echo reiterated in a thousand mazes | H |
| It is for mortal hearts a divine opium | X |
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| It is a cry repeated by a thousand sentinels | H |
| An order returned by a thousand megaphones | H |
| A beacon lighting a thousand citadels | H |
| A summons to hunters lost in the wide woods | H |
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| For truly O Lord what better testimony | L |
| Can we give to our dignity | L |
| Than this burning sob that rolls from age to age | Y |
| And comes to die on the shore of Your eternity | L |
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| Translated by William A Sigler | E |
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| Submitted by Ryan McGuire | Z |
Charles Baudelaire
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