Owls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC CDEC FGH IJI| Under black yew trees in the shade | A |
| The owls have kept themselves apart | B |
| Like strange divinities they dart | B |
| The red eye as they meditate | C |
| - | |
| They stand like statues silent straight | C |
| Up to the melancholy time | D |
| When shouldering the sun aside | E |
| Darkness establishes his state | C |
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| They teach the sage a lesson here | F |
| That in the world he ought to fear | G |
| All movement uproar turbulence | H |
| - | |
| But drunk on shadows our strange race | I |
| Carries within the punishment | J |
| Of having yearned for change of place | I |
Charles Baudelaire
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