The Enemy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJH KLL M N| My youth was nothing but a black storm | A |
| Crossed now and then by brilliant suns | B |
| The thunder and the rain so ravage the shores | C |
| Nothing's left of the fruit my garden held once | D |
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| I should employ the rake and the plow | E |
| Having reached the autumn of ideas | F |
| To restore this inundated ground | G |
| Where the deep grooves of water form tombs in the lees | H |
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| And who knows if the new flowers you dreamed | I |
| Will find in a soil stripped and cleaned | J |
| The mystic nourishment that fortifies | H |
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| mdash O Sorrow mdash O Sorrow mdash Time consumes Life | K |
| And the obscure enemy that gnaws at my heart | L |
| Uses the blood that I lose to play my part | L |
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| Translated by William A Sigler | M |
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| Submitted by Ryan McGuire | N |
Charles Baudelaire
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