The Clock Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGE BHIJ IKII LMBN HOP| The Clock a sinister impassive god | A |
| Whose threatening finger says to us 'Remember | B |
| Soon in your anguished heart as in a target | C |
| Quivering shafts of Grief will plant themselves | D |
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| Vaporous Joy glides over the horizon | E |
| The way a sylphid flits into the wings | F |
| Each instant eats a piece of the delight | G |
| A man is granted for his earthly season | E |
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| Three thousand and six hundred times an hour | B |
| The Second sighs Remember Suddenly | H |
| That droning insect Now says I am Past | I |
| And I have sucked your life into my nostril | J |
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| Esto memor Remember Souviens toi | I |
| My metal throat speaks out in a every language | K |
| Don't let the minutes prodigal be wasted | I |
| They are the ore you must refine for gold | I |
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| Remember Time is greedy at the game | L |
| And wins on every roll perfectly legal | M |
| The day runs down the night comes on remember | B |
| The water clock bleeds into the abyss | N |
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| Soon sounds the hour when Chance the heavenly | H |
| When Virtue the august eternal virgin | O |
| When even oh your last retreat Repentance | P |
| Will tell you Die old coward it's too late ' | - |
Charles Baudelaire
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