The Confiteor Of The Artist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDE| How penetrating is the end of an autumn day Ah yes penetrating enough to be painful even for there are certain delicious sensations whose vagueness does not prevent them from being intense and none more keen than the perception of the Infinite He has a great delight who drowns his gaze in the immensity of sky and sea Solitude silence the incomparable chastity of the azure a little sail trembling upon the horizon by its very littleness and isolation imitating my irremediable existence the melodious monotone of the surge all these things thinking through me and I through them for in the grandeur of the reverie the Ego is swiftly lost they think I say but musically and picturesquely without quibbles without syllogisms without deductions | A |
| These thoughts as they arise in me or spring forth from external objects soon become always too intense | B |
| The energy working within pleasure creates an uneasiness a positive suffering My nerves are too tense to give other than clamouring and dolorous vibrations | A |
| And now the profundity of the sky dismays me its limpidity exasperates me The insensibility of the sea the immutability of the spectacle revolt me Ah must one eternally suffer for ever be a fugitive from Beauty | C |
| Nature pitiless enchantress ever victorious rival leave me Tempt my desires and my pride no more | D |
| The contemplation of Beauty is a duel where the artist screams with terror before being vanquished | E |
Charles Baudelaire
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