The Carcass Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD CEFE GHIJ EKEK LMNO PQRS OTUV CWEX YZEA2 OCIC EEEE B2EC2E| Remember that object we saw dear soul | A |
| In the sweetness of a summer morn | B |
| At a bend of the path a loathsome carrion | C |
| On a bed with pebbles strewn | D |
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| With legs raised like a lustful woman | C |
| Burning and sweating poisons | E |
| It spread open nonchalant and scornful | F |
| Its belly ripe with exhalations | E |
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| The sun shone onto the rotting heap | G |
| As if to bring it to the boil | H |
| And tender a hundredfold to vast Nature | I |
| All that together she had joined | J |
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| And the sky watched that superb carcass | E |
| Like a flower blossom out | K |
| The stench was so strong that on the grass | E |
| You thought you would pass out | K |
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| Flies hummed upon the putrid belly | L |
| Whence larvae in black battalions spread | M |
| And like a heavy liquid flowed | N |
| Along the tatters deliquescing | O |
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| All together it unfurled and rose like a wave | P |
| And bubbling it sprang forth | Q |
| One might have believed that with a faint breath filled | R |
| The body multiplying lived | S |
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| And this world gave out a strange music | O |
| Like of running water and of wind | T |
| Or of grain in a winnow | U |
| Rhythmically shaken and tossed | V |
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| Form was erased and all but a vision | C |
| A sketch slow to take shape | W |
| On a forgotten canvas which the artist finishes | E |
| From memory alone | X |
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| Behind the rocks a fretting bitch | Y |
| Looked at us with fierce mien | Z |
| Anxious to retrieve from the corpse | E |
| A morsel that she had dropped | A2 |
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| Yet to this rot you shall be like | O |
| To this horrid corruption | C |
| Star of my eyes sun of desire | I |
| You my angel and my passion | C |
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| Yes such you shall be you queen of all graces | E |
| After the last sacraments | E |
| When you go beneath the grass and waxy flowers | E |
| To mold among the skeletons | E |
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| Then oh my beauty You must tell the vermin | B2 |
| As it eats you up with kisses | E |
| That I have preserved the form and essence divine | C2 |
| Of my decayed loves | E |
Charles Baudelaire
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