Skeletons Digging Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCB DEED BDDF A GBBG HBIJ KLLG MADN OPPO| I | A |
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| In anatomical designs | B |
| That hang about these dusty quays | B |
| Where books' cadavers lie and sleep | C |
| Like mummies of the ancient times | B |
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| Drawings of which the gravity | D |
| And the engraver's knowing hand | E |
| Although the theme be less than grand | E |
| Communicate an artistry | D |
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| One sees which renders more intense | B |
| The horror and the mystery | D |
| Like field hands working wearily | D |
| Some skeletons and skinless men | F |
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| II | A |
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| Out of the land you're digging there | G |
| Obedient and woeful drones | B |
| With all the effort of your bones | B |
| Of all your muscles stripped and bare | G |
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| Say what strange harvest do you farm | H |
| Convicts from the charnel house | B |
| And what contractor hired you out | I |
| To fill what farmer's empty barn | J |
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| Do you our dreadful fate seems clear | K |
| In your design intend to show | L |
| That in the pit we may not know | L |
| The sleep we have been promised there | G |
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| Non being will not keep its faith | M |
| That even Death can tell a lie | A |
| And that Alas eternally | D |
| It falls to us perhaps at death | N |
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| In some anonymous retreat | O |
| To see the stubborn land is flayed | P |
| By pushing the reluctant spade | P |
| Under our bare and bleeding feet | O |
Charles Baudelaire
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