The Happy Corpse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJJ KJL| In a rich land fertile replete with snails | A |
| I'd like to dig myself a spacious pit | B |
| Where I might spread at leisure myoid bones | C |
| And sleep unnoticed like a shark at sea | D |
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| I hate both testaments and epitaphs | E |
| Sooner than beg remembrance from the world | F |
| I would alive invite the hungry crows | G |
| To bleed my tainted carcass inch by inch | H |
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| O worms dark playmates minus ear or eye | I |
| Prepare to meet a free and happy corpse | J |
| Droll philosophies children of rottenness | J |
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| Go then along my ruin guiltlessly | K |
| And say if any torture still exists | J |
| For this old soulless corpse dead with the dead | L |
Charles Baudelaire
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