Don Juan In Hades Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB CDCD EFEF GHGH ICIC| When Juan sought the subterranean flood | A |
| And paid his obolus on the Stygian shore | B |
| Charon the proud and sombre beggar stood | C |
| With one strong vengeful hand on either oar | B |
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| With open robes and bodies agonised | C |
| Lost women writhed beneath that darkling sky | D |
| There were sounds as of victims sacrificed | C |
| Behind him all the dark was one long cry | D |
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| And Sganarelle with laughter claimed his pledge | E |
| Don Luis with trembling finger in the air | F |
| Showed to the souls who wandered in the sedge | E |
| The evil son who scorned his hoary hair | F |
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| Shivering with woe chaste Elvira the while | G |
| Near him untrue to all but her till now | H |
| Seemed to beseech him for one farewell smile | G |
| Lit with the sweetness of the first soft vow | H |
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| And clad in armour a tall man of stone | I |
| Held firm the helm and clove the gloomy flood | C |
| But staring at the vessel's track alone | I |
| Bent on his sword the unmoved hero stood | C |
Charles Baudelaire
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