Punishment For Pride Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAADDEEFGHI JJKLMMAHNNOP| When in brave days of old Theology | A |
| Flourished with utmost sap and energy | A |
| A celebrated doctor it is said | B |
| When he had force fed some indifferent heads | C |
| Had stirred them in their blackest lethargy | A |
| Vaulted himself towards holy ecstasy | A |
| By mystic processes he scarcely knew | D |
| A state pure souls alone were welcomed to | D |
| This man who'd tried to grasp beyond his reach | E |
| Flushed with Satanic pride made bold in speech | E |
| 'O little Jesus I have raised you high | F |
| But if I chose to take the other side | G |
| Thou helpless one I'd bring thy glory low | H |
| The Christ child an outlandish embryo ' | I |
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| At once his Reason's sentence had begun | J |
| Shrouded in crepe was this once blazing sun | J |
| All chaos rolled in this intelligence | K |
| Before a temple ordered opulent | L |
| Where he'd held forth in pomp beneath its dome | M |
| Now in him silence darkness made their home | M |
| As in a cellar vault without a key | A |
| And when he crossed the fields unseeingly | H |
| As unaware of winter as of spring | N |
| Useless and ugly as a womout thing | N |
| He was no better than a common beast | O |
| And was the jeering children's special treat | P |
Charles Baudelaire
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