Dusk Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEEFFGHIJKLMNOPQQRR SSTT UUVVWXYZ BB| Sweet evening comes friend of the criminal | A |
| Like an accomplice with a light footfall | B |
| The sky shuts on itself as though a tomb | C |
| And man turns beast within his restless room | C |
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| o evening night so wished for by the one | D |
| Whose honest weary arms can say We've done | D |
| Our work today The night will bring relief | E |
| To spirits who consume themselves with grief | E |
| The scholar who is bowed with heavy head | F |
| The broken worker falling into bed | F |
| Meanwhile corrupting demons of the air | G |
| Slowly wake up like men of great affairs | H |
| And flying bump our shutters and our eaves | I |
| Against the glimmerings teased by the breeze | J |
| Old Prostitution blazes in the streets | K |
| She opens out her nest of ants retreat | L |
| Everywhere she clears the secret routes | M |
| A stealthy force preparing for a coup | N |
| She moves within this city made of mud | O |
| A worm who steals from man his daily food | P |
| One hears the hissing kitchens close at hand | Q |
| The playhouse screech the blaring of a band | Q |
| The tables at the inns where gamesmen sport | R |
| Are full of swindlers sluts and all their sort | R |
| Robbers who show no pity to their prey | S |
| Get ready for their nightly work a day | S |
| Of cracking safes and deftly forcing doors | T |
| To live a few days more and dress their whores | T |
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| Collect yourself my soul in this grave time | U |
| And shut out all this clamour from the slime | U |
| This the time of sick men's sharpest pain | V |
| Black night will grab their throats they cry in vain | V |
| And finish out their fate in common grave | W |
| The hospital is filled with gasps They have | X |
| No further need to think of evenings spent | Y |
| At fireside the fragrant soup the friend | Z |
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| But most of them have never known the call | B |
| Of friendly hearth have never lived at all | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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