The Flawed Bell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GGH IJJ| It's bitter yet sweet on wintry nights | A |
| near to the fire that crackles and fumes | B |
| listening while far off slow memories rise | C |
| to echoing chimes that ring through the gloom | D |
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| Lucky indeed the loud tongued bell | E |
| still hale and hearty despite its age | F |
| repeating its pious call true and well | E |
| like an old trooper in the sentry's cage | F |
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| My soul is flawed when at boredom's sigh | G |
| it would fill the chill night air with its cry | G |
| it often happens that its voice enfeebled | H |
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| thickens like a wounded man's death rattle | I |
| by a lake of blood vast heaps of the dying | J |
| who ends without moving despite his trying | J |
Charles Baudelaire
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