Poison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEEDE FGHFH IJKJL| Wine can invest the most disgusting hole | A |
| With wonders to our eyes | B |
| And make the fabled porticoes arise | B |
| In its red vapour's gold | C |
| That show in sunsets seen through hazy skies | B |
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| Opium will expand beyond all measures | D |
| Stretch out the limitless | E |
| Will deepen time make rapture bottomless | E |
| With dismal pleasures | D |
| Surfeit the soul to point of helplessness | E |
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| But that is nothing to the poison flow | F |
| Out of your eyes those round | G |
| Green lakes in which my soul turns upside down | H |
| To these my dreams all go | F |
| At these most bitter gulfs to drink or drown | H |
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| But all that is not worth the prodigy | I |
| Of your saliva girl | J |
| That bites my soul and dizzies it and swirls | K |
| It down remorselessly | J |
| Rolling it fainting to the underworld | L |
Charles Baudelaire
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