Gaming Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC AAAD AEAF GHIJ KAAL MANA| In faded chairs the pale old courtesans | A |
| Eyebrows painted eye of fatal calm | B |
| Smirking and letting drop from skinny ears | A |
| Those jingling sounds of metal and of stone | C |
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| Around green cloth the faces without lips | A |
| Lips without colour over toothless jaws | A |
| And fingers twisted by infernal fires | A |
| Digging in pockets or in panting breast | D |
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| Under the filthy ceilings chandeliers | A |
| And lamps of oil doling out their glow | E |
| Over the brilliant poets' gloomy brows | A |
| Who come to squander here their bloody sweat | F |
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| This is the black tableau that in my dream | G |
| I see unroll before my prescient eye | H |
| There in an idle corner of that den | I |
| I see myself cold mute and envying | J |
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| Envious of these men's tenacious lust | K |
| The morbid gaiety of these old whores | A |
| Trafficking gallantly before my face | A |
| In honour and in beauty as of old | L |
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| My heart takes fright to envy this poor lot | M |
| Who rush so fervently to the abyss | A |
| And who drunk on their blood prefer in sum | N |
| Suffering to death and Hell to nothingness | A |
Charles Baudelaire
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