The Digging Skeleton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBBCDECBFGFAHIBJKL MKNOONPBBPCQQF| I | A |
| In the anatomical plates | B |
| displayed on the dusty quays | B |
| where many a dry book sleeps | B |
| mummified as in ancient days | B |
| drawings to which the gravity | C |
| and skill of some past artist | D |
| despite the gloomy subject | E |
| have communicated beauty | C |
| you ll see and it renders those | B |
| gruesome mysteries more complete | F |
| flayed men and skeletons posed | G |
| farm hands digging the soil at their feet | F |
| II | A |
| Peasants dour and resigned | H |
| convicts pressed from the grave | I |
| what s the strange harvest say | B |
| for which you hack the ground | J |
| bending your backbones there | K |
| flexing each fleshless sinew | L |
| what farmer s barn must you | M |
| labour to fill with such care | K |
| Do you seek to show by that pure | N |
| and terrible emblem of too hard | O |
| a fate that even in the bone yard | O |
| the promised sleep s far from sure | N |
| that even the Void s a traitor | P |
| that even Death tells us lies | B |
| that in some land new to our eyes | B |
| we must perhaps alas forever | P |
| and ever and ever eternally | C |
| wield there the heavy spade | Q |
| scrape the dull earth its blade | Q |
| beneath our naked bleeding feet | F |
Charles Baudelaire
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