Intoxication Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB| One must be for ever drunken that is the sole question of importance If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time that bruises your shoulders and bends you to the earth you must be drunken without cease But how With wine with poetry with virtue with what you please But be drunken And if sometimes on the steps of a palace on the green grass by a moat or in the dull loneliness of your chamber you should waken up your intoxication already lessened or gone ask of the wind of the wave of the star of the bird of the timepiece ask of all that flees all that sighs all that revolves all that sings all that speaks ask of these the hour and wind and wave and star and bird and timepiece will answer you | A |
| It is the hour to be drunken Lest you be the martyred slaves of Time intoxicate yourselves be drunken without cease With wine with poetry with virtue or with what you will | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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