The Game Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGHGIJKJLMLG GNGO| Old courtesans in washed out armchairs | A |
| pale eyebrows blacked eyes tender fatal | B |
| simpering still and from their skinny ears | C |
| loosing their waterfalls of stone and metal | B |
| Round the green baize faces without lips | D |
| lips without blood jaws without the rest | E |
| clawed fingers that the hellish fever grips | D |
| fumbling an empty pocket heaving breast | E |
| below soiled ceilings rows of pallid lights | F |
| and huge candelabras shed their glimmer | G |
| across the brooding brows of famous poets | H |
| here it s their blood and sweat they squander | G |
| this the dark tableau of nocturnal dream | I |
| my clairvoyant eye once watched unfold | J |
| In an angle of that silent lair I leaned | K |
| hard on my elbows envious mute and cold | J |
| yes envying that crew s tenacious passion | L |
| the graveyard gaiety of those old whores | M |
| all bravely trafficking to my face this one | L |
| her looks that one his family honour | G |
| heart scared of envying many a character | G |
| fervently rushing at the wide abyss | N |
| drunk on their own blood who d still prefer | G |
| torment to death and hell to nothingness | O |
Charles Baudelaire
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