Lament Of An Icarus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFEFGHHG| Lovers of whores don t care | A |
| happy calm and replete | B |
| But my arms are incomplete | B |
| grasping the empty air | A |
| Thanks to stars incomparable ones | C |
| that blaze in the depths of the skies | D |
| all my destroyed eyes | D |
| see are the memories of suns | C |
| I look in vain for beginning and end | E |
| of the heavens slow revolve | F |
| Under an unknown eye of fire I ascend | E |
| feeling my wings dissolve | F |
| And scorched by desire for the beautiful | G |
| I will not know the bliss | H |
| of giving my name to that abyss | H |
| that knows my tomb and funeral | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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