Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEFGGHHI IDJKKLMFFDDNO PQRS| Reveille sang its call among the barracks' paths | A |
| And moving air disturbed the tall commanding lamps | B |
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| It was the time when dreams of lust and swarming heat | C |
| Set brown young adolescents twisting in their sheets | D |
| When like a bloody eye that pulses as it stares | E |
| The lamp will cast a stain of red throughout the air | F |
| When spirits in the burden of the body's sway | G |
| Mimic the struggles of the lamplight and the day | G |
| The air a face in tears that breeezes will wipe dry | H |
| Is full of tremors of escaping things that fly | H |
| And he is tired of writing she of making love | I |
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| This house and that began to send their smoke above | I |
| With ghastly painted eyes the women of the streets | D |
| Mouths gaping open lay within their stupid sleep | J |
| Poor women slack breasts dangling cold and lean as rails | K |
| Blew on their smouldering logs or on their purple nails | K |
| It was the hour when among the bare and poor | L |
| Unfortunates in childbed suffered all the more | M |
| Like a wild sob cut short by foaming blood somewhere | F |
| A distant rooster's cry tore through the misty air | F |
| A sea of fogs that bathed the buildings and the streets | D |
| And dying poorhouse wretches from their sad retreats | D |
| Rattled away their lives in strangulated coughs | N |
| Love's veterans came home broken by labours lost | O |
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| Aurora trembling in her gown of rose and green | P |
| Made her way slowly on the still deserted Seine | Q |
| Old Paris rubbed his eyes woke to the day again | R |
| And gathered up his tools that honest working man | S |
Charles Baudelaire
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