The Alchemy Of Sadness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEC FGA HAAOne man lights you with his ardour | A |
one decks you in mourning Nature | A |
What says to the first 'A Sepulchre ' | B |
To the other cries 'Life and splendour ' | B |
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Unknown Hermes who assists | C |
yet intimidates me as well | D |
you make me Midas' equal | E |
the saddest of alchemists | C |
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You help me change gold to iron | F |
paradise to hell's kingdom | G |
in the shrouded atmosphere | A |
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I find a dear corpse and on | H |
the celestial shores it's there | A |
I build a mighty sepulcher | A |
Charles Baudelaire
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