The Fountain Of Blood Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBC ABDA BAE BBF| A fountain's pulsing sobs like this my blood | A |
| Measures its flowing so it sometimes seems | B |
| I hear a gentle murmur as it streams | B |
| Where the wound lies I've never understood | C |
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| Like water meadows boulevards are flooded | A |
| Cobblestones crisscrossed by scarlet rills | B |
| Are islands creatures come and drink their fill | D |
| Nothing in nature now remains unblooded | A |
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| I used to hope that wine could bring me ease | B |
| Could lull asleep my deeply gnawing mind | A |
| I was a fool the senses clear with wine | E |
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| I looked to Love to cure my old disease | B |
| Love led me to a thicket of IVs | B |
| Where bristling needles thirsted for each vein | F |
Charles Baudelaire
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