Hymn To Beauty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ KLMN OPQP RSTS MUVU| O Beauty do you visit from the sky | A |
| Or the abyss infernal and divine | B |
| Your gaze bestows both kindnesses and crimes | C |
| So it is said you act on us like wine | B |
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| Your eye contains the evening and the dawn | D |
| You pour out odours like an evening storm | E |
| Your kiss is potion from an ancient jar | F |
| That can make heroes cold and children warm | E |
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| Are you of heaven or the nether world | G |
| Charmed Destiny your pet attends your walk | H |
| You scatter joys and sorrows at your whim | I |
| And govern all and answer no man's call | J |
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| Beauty you walk on corpses mocking them | K |
| Horror is charming as your other gems | L |
| And Murder is a trinket dancing there | M |
| Lovingly on your naked belly's skin | N |
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| You are a candle where the mayfly dies | O |
| In flames blessing this fire's deadly bloom | P |
| The panting lover bending to his love | Q |
| Looks like a dying man who strokes his tomb | P |
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| What difference then from heaven or from hell | R |
| O Beauty monstrous in simplicity | S |
| If eye smile step can open me the way | T |
| To find unknown sublime infinity | S |
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| Angel or siren spirit I don't care | M |
| As long as velvet eyes and perfumed head | U |
| And glimmering motions o my queen can make | V |
| The world less dreadful and the time less dead | U |
Charles Baudelaire
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