Poet Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

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Skeletons Digging Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DEED BDDF A GBBG HBIJ KLLG MADN OPPO

IA
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In anatomical designsB
That hang about these dusty quaysB
Where books' cadavers lie and sleepC
Like mummies of the ancient timesB
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Drawings of which the gravityD
And the engraver's knowing handE
Although the theme be less than grandE
Communicate an artistryD
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One sees which renders more intenseB
The horror and the mysteryD
Like field hands working wearilyD
Some skeletons and skinless menF
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IIA
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Out of the land you're digging thereG
Obedient and woeful dronesB
With all the effort of your bonesB
Of all your muscles stripped and bareG
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Say what strange harvest do you farmH
Convicts from the charnel houseB
And what contractor hired you outI
To fill what farmer's empty barnJ
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Do you our dreadful fate seems clearK
In your design intend to showL
That in the pit we may not knowL
The sleep we have been promised thereG
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Non being will not keep its faithM
That even Death can tell a lieA
And that Alas eternallyD
It falls to us perhaps at deathN
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In some anonymous retreatO
To see the stubborn land is flayedP
By pushing the reluctant spadeP
Under our bare and bleeding feetO

Charles Baudelaire



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