Heautontimoroumenos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB DEFG CHIC JKKL MNOP PQCP PRSP| for J G F | A |
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| I'll strike you without rage or hate | B |
| The way a butcher strikes his block | C |
| The way that Moses smote the rock | C |
| So that your eyes may irrigate | B |
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| My dry Sahara I'll allow | D |
| The tears to flow of your distress | E |
| Desire that hope embellishes | F |
| Will swim along the overflow | G |
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| As ships set out for voyaging | C |
| And like a drum that beats the charge | H |
| In my infatuated heart | I |
| The echoes of your sobs will ring | C |
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| But am I not a false accord | J |
| Within the holy symphony | K |
| Thanks to voracious Irony | K |
| Who gnaws on me and shakes me hard | L |
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| She's in my voice in all I do | M |
| Her poison flows in all my veins | N |
| I am the looking glass of pain | O |
| Where she regards herself the shrew | P |
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| I am the wound and rapier | P |
| I am the cheek I am the slap | Q |
| I am the limbs I am the rack | C |
| The prisoner the torturer | P |
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| I am my own blood's epicure | P |
| One of those great abandoned men | R |
| Who are eternally condemned | S |
| To laugh but who can smile no more | P |
Charles Baudelaire
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