The Flask Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEF FCCGG HIJKLM NOPPCCQQ| There are some powerful odours that can pass | A |
| Out of the stoppard flagon even glass | A |
| To them is porous Oft when some old box | B |
| Brought from the East is opened and the locks | B |
| And hinges creak and cry or in a press | C |
| In some deserted house where the sharp stress | C |
| Of odours old and dusty fills the brain | D |
| An ancient flask is brought to light again | E |
| And forth the ghosts of long dead odours creep | F |
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| There softly trembling in the shadows sleep | F |
| A thousand thoughts funereal chrysalides | C |
| Phantoms of old the folding darkness hides | C |
| Who make faint flutterings as their wings unfold | G |
| Rose washed and azure tinted shot with gold | G |
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| A memory that brings languor flutters here | H |
| The fainting eyelids droop and giddy Fear | I |
| Thrusts with both hands the soul towards the pit | J |
| Where like a Lazarus from his winding sheet | K |
| Arises from the gulf of sleep a ghost | L |
| Of an old passion long since loved and lost | M |
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| So I when vanished from man's memory | N |
| Deep in some dark and sombre chest I lie | O |
| An empty flagon they have cast aside | P |
| Broken and soiled the dust upon my pride | P |
| Will be your shroud beloved pestilence | C |
| The witness of your might and virulence | C |
| Sweet poison mixed by angels bitter cup | Q |
| Of life and death my heart has drunken up | Q |
Charles Baudelaire
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