Draft Epilogue For The Second Edition Of Les Fleurs Du Mal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AB CDEF GHIJKLL MNOLL LPLLQL KRR LSTU L V

Tranquil as a sage and gentle as one who's cursed I saidA
I love you oh my beauty my charmerB
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many a timeC
your debauches without thirst your soul less lovesD
your longing for the infiniteE
which proclaims itself everywhere even in evilF
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your bombs knives victory marches public feastsG
your melancholy suburbsH
your furnished roomsI
your gardens full of sighs and intrigueJ
your churches vomiting prayer as musicK
your childish despairs mad hags' gamesL
your discouragementsL
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and your fireworks eruptions of joyM
that make the dumb and gloomy sky smileN
Your venerable vice dressed in silkO
and laughable virtue with sad gazeL
gentle delighting in the luxury it showsL
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Your saved principles and flouted lawsL
your proud monuments on which mists catchP
your metal domes the sun inflamesL
your theatrical queens with seductive voicesL
your tocsins cannon deafening orchestraQ
your magic cobbles heaped as barricadesL
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your petty orators' swollen rhetoricK
preaching love while your sewers run with bloodR
rushing towards Hell like the Orinoco's floodR
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your angels your fresh clowns in ancient ragsL
Angels dressed in gold purple and hyacinthS
O you bear witness that I've discharged my taskT
like a perfect alchemist like a sainted soulU
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From every thing I've extracted the quintessenceL
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you gave me your mud and I've turned it into goldV

Charles Baudelaire



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