Litanies Of Satan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB C DE C FF C GH C IJ C KL C MN C OO C PP C QQ C RR C ST C KK C UV C GH C WXYCCZZ| O Angel the most brilliant and most wise | A |
| A God betrayed by fate deprived of praise | B |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| O Prince of exile you who have been wronged | D |
| Who even conquered rises yet more strong | E |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Great king who knows the lore the earth imparts | F |
| Intimate healer of our anguished hearts | F |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Who even to the leprous the despised | G |
| Can teach by love the taste for Paradise | H |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Who with your old and hardy mistress Death | I |
| Breeds Hope a charming lunatic at best | J |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Who gives the prisoner his calm disdain | K |
| Who damns the crowds around the guillotine | L |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Who knows which comers of the envious lands | M |
| The jealous God has picked to hide his gems | N |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Whose clear eye sees the deepest lying stores | O |
| Where buried sleep the metals and the ores | O |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Whose large hand overrides the sudden edge | P |
| For the somnambulist who walks the ledge | P |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Whose magic gives a strength to ancient bones | Q |
| Of drunkards trampled on the cobblestones | Q |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Who to console us in our fearful lot | R |
| Taught us the mysteries of shell and shot | R |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Whose mark astute accomplice will be found | S |
| On Croesus' mean and unforgiving brow | T |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Who sees that women's hearts and eyes sustain | K |
| The love of rags the cult of wounds and pain | K |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Staff of the exiles the inventor's lamp | U |
| Confessor of the hanged plotters and tramps | V |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Adoptive father of those ostracized | G |
| By God and banished from his paradise | H |
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| Satan take pity on my misery | C |
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| Prayer | W |
| Glory and praise to Satan where you reigned | X |
| In Heaven and in depths of Hell the same | Y |
| Where now you dream in silent reverie | C |
| And may my soul take rest beneath the Tree | C |
| Of Knowledge with you when above your head | Z |
| Like a new Temple those great branches spread | Z |
Charles Baudelaire
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