Duellum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGH IBJ| Two warriors have grappled and their arms | A |
| Have flecked the air with blood and flashing steel | B |
| These frolics this mad clanking these alarms | A |
| Proceed from childish love's frantic appeal | B |
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| The swords are broken like our youthful life | C |
| My dear But tooth and nail avid and sharp | D |
| Soon fill the place of rapier and knife | C |
| bitter heat of love o cankered hearts | E |
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| In a ravine haunted by catlike forms | F |
| These two have tumbled struggling to the end | G |
| Shreds of their skin will bloom on arid thorns | H |
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| This pit is Hell its denizens our friends | I |
| Amazon let us roll there guiltlessly | B |
| In spiteful fervour for eternity | J |
Charles Baudelaire
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