Morning Twilight Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGDDHIJIKKIL MMNIOPDD| Reveille was sounding on barrack squares | A |
| and the wind of dawn blew on lighted stairs | A |
| It was the hour when a swarm of evil visions | B |
| torments swarthy adolescents when pillows hum | C |
| when a bloodshot eye throbbing and quivering | D |
| the lamp makes a reddened stain on the morning | D |
| when the soul by dull sour body bowed down | E |
| enacts the struggle between lamp and dawn | F |
| Like a tearful face that the breeze wipes dry | G |
| the air s filled with the frisson of things that fly | G |
| and man is tired of writing woman with loving | D |
| The chimneys here and there began smoking | D |
| The women of pleasure with their bleary eyes | H |
| and gaping mouths were sleeping stupefied | I |
| poor old women with chilled and meagre breasts | J |
| blew the embers then fingers roused from rest | I |
| It was the hour when frozen with money scarcer | K |
| the pains of women in childbirth grew fiercer | K |
| and like a sob cut short by a surge of blood | I |
| a cock crow far away broke through the fog | L |
| a sea of mist bathed the buildings dying men | M |
| in the depths of the workhouse groaned again | M |
| emitting their death rattles in ragged breaths | N |
| Debauchees tired by their efforts headed for rest | I |
| Shivering dawn in a robe of pink and green | O |
| made her way slowly along the deserted Seine | P |
| and sombre Paris eyes rubbed and watering | D |
| groped for its tools an old man labouring | D |
Charles Baudelaire
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