Lethe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GCCC CCHC FIIJ FKLM| Come to my heart cruel insensible one | A |
| Adored tiger monster with the indolent air | B |
| I would for a long time plunge my trembling fingers | C |
| Into the heavy tresses of your hair | B |
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| And in your garments that exhale your perfume | D |
| I would bury my aching head | E |
| And breathe like a withered flower | F |
| The sweet stale reek of my love that is dead | E |
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| I want to sleep sleep rather than live | G |
| And in a slumber dubious as the tomb's | C |
| I would lavish my kisses without remorse | C |
| Upon the burnished copper of your limbs | C |
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| To swallow my abated sobs | C |
| Nothing equals your bed's abyss | C |
| Forgetfulness dwells in your mouth | H |
| And Lethe flows from your kiss | C |
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| My destiny henceforth my pleasure | F |
| I shall obey predestined instrument | I |
| Docile martyr condemned innocent | I |
| Whose fervour but augments his torment | J |
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| I shall suck to drown my rancour | F |
| Nepenthe hemlock an opiate | K |
| At the charming tips of this pointed breast | L |
| That has never imprisoned a heart | M |
Charles Baudelaire
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