Condemned Women Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDD DDEF GHIH DJDJ KELE MNEO| Like pensive cattle lying on the sands | A |
| They gaze upon the endless seas until | B |
| Feet grope for feet and hands close over hands | A |
| In languid sweetness or with quivering chill | B |
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| Some with full hearts from long and private talk | C |
| In deep groves where the brooks will chide and tease | D |
| Spell out the love of fretful girlishness | D |
| Carving the fresh green wood of tender trees | D |
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| Others like sisters walk with stately pace | D |
| Where apparitions live in craggy piles | D |
| Where rose like lava for St Anthony | E |
| The naked purple breasts of his great trial | F |
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| Some there may be by sinking resin glow | G |
| Deep in a cave where ancient pagans met | H |
| Who call to help for fevers in a rage | I |
| o Bacchus silencer of all regret | H |
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| And others with a taste for monkish cloaks | D |
| Who secreting a lash beneath the cloth | J |
| Within the woods through solitary nights | D |
| Mingle with tears of pain their passion's froth | J |
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| O maidens demons monsters martyrs all | K |
| Spirits disdainful of reality | E |
| Satyrs and seekers of the infinite | L |
| With rain of tears or cries of ecstasy | E |
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| You whom my soul has followed to your hell | M |
| Poor sisters let me pity and approve | N |
| For all your leaden griefs for slake less thirsts | E |
| And for your hearts great urns that ache with love | O |
Charles Baudelaire
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