The Irremediable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGHI JKKL MNOM PQRS TUUT VWXV TYYC A ZA2A2B2 RC2D2E2| I | A |
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| A Being a Form an Idea | B |
| Having fallen from out of the blue | C |
| Into the Stygian slough | D |
| Where no eye of the sky ever sees | E |
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| An impetuous Angel allured | F |
| By the love of the twisted and mean | G |
| In the depths of a nightmarish dream | H |
| Like a swimmer who struggles for shore | I |
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| Contending in wretched distress | J |
| With a whirlpool that swivels along | K |
| Singing a madman's song | K |
| Performing its dark pirouettes | L |
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| A bewildered man miserably | M |
| Attempting a groping escape | N |
| Out of a place full of snakes | O |
| Lacking the lamp and the key | M |
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| A damned soul fumbling down steps | P |
| Of an infinite stair without rails | Q |
| At the edge of a gulf with a smell | R |
| Betraying the clammy depths | S |
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| Where monsters watch below | T |
| Whose eyeballs' glowing light | U |
| Makes blacker still the night | U |
| Themselves are all they show | T |
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| An iced in polar ship | V |
| Seized in a vice of glass | W |
| Searching the fatal path | X |
| Of this imprisoning trip | V |
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| Pure emblems a perfect tableau | T |
| Of an irremediable evil | Y |
| Which makes us think that the Devil | Y |
| Does well what he chooses to do | C |
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| II | A |
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| It's a face to face sombre and clear | Z |
| When a heart gives its own image back | A2 |
| Well of Verity limpid and black | A2 |
| Where trembles a ghastly star | B2 |
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| An ironic beacon from Hell | R |
| Torch of Satanical graces | C2 |
| And a glory in consolation | D2 |
| Evil aware of itself | E2 |
Charles Baudelaire
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