Passion And The Skull Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCC DEFE GHIC BCJC KAC| An Old Colophon | A |
| - | |
| Passion sits on the skull | B |
| Of Humanity | C |
| And this infidel enthroned | C |
| Laughs shamelessly | C |
| - | |
| And gaily blows round bubbles | D |
| That will fly | E |
| As if to join with worlds | F |
| Deep in the sky | E |
| - | |
| Rising on high the frail | G |
| Luminous globe | H |
| Shatters and bursts its slim soul | I |
| Like a dream of gold | C |
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| I hear at each bubble the skull | B |
| Moan and contend | C |
| 'This vicious ridiculous game | J |
| When will it end | C |
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| What you are blowing away | K |
| Again and again | A |
| You murderous fiend is my body | C |
| My blood and my brain ' | - |
Charles Baudelaire
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