The Irreparable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFGFEHIHJHKLMNK OPQPOHRHRHSTUVSWXQXW YZA2RYB2C2D2E2B2| Can we stifle the old long lived Remorse | A |
| that lives writhes heaves | B |
| feeds on us like a worm on a corpse | C |
| like oak gall on the oak trees | D |
| Can we stifle the old long lived Remorse | A |
| In what potion in what wine in what brew | E |
| shall we drown this old enemy | F |
| greedy destructive as a prostitute | G |
| ant like always filled with tenacity | F |
| In what potion In what wine In what brew | E |
| Tell us lovely witch oh tell us if you know | H |
| tell the spirit filled with anguish | I |
| as if dying crushed by the wounded oh | H |
| crumpled beneath the horses | J |
| tell us lovely witch oh tell us if you know | H |
| tell the one in agony the wolf s already scented | K |
| whom the raven now surveys | L |
| tell the shattered soldier Say if he s intended | M |
| to despair of cross and grave | N |
| poor soul in agony the wolf s already scented | K |
| Can we illuminate a black and muddied sky | O |
| can we pierce the shadowy evening | P |
| denser than pitch with neither day or night | Q |
| star less with no funereal lightning | P |
| Can we illuminate a black and muddied sky | O |
| The Hope that shone in the Tavern window | H |
| is quenched is dead forever | R |
| How to find without sunlight without moon glow | H |
| for the foul road s martyrs ah shelter | R |
| The Devil s quenched all in the Tavern window | H |
| Adorable witch do you love the damned | S |
| Say do you know the unforgivable | T |
| Do you understand Remorse its poisoned hand | U |
| for which our heart serves as target | V |
| Adorable witch do you love the damned | S |
| The Irreparable with its accursed tooth bites | W |
| at our soul this pitiful monument | X |
| and often gnaws away like a termite | Q |
| below the foundations of the battlement | X |
| The Irreparable with its accursed tooth bites | W |
| Sometimes on the boards of a cheap stage | Y |
| lit up by the sonorous orchestra | Z |
| I ve seen a fairy kindling miraculous day | A2 |
| in the infernal sky above her | R |
| sometimes on the boards of a cheap stage | Y |
| a being who is nothing but light gold gauze | B2 |
| flooring the enormous Satan | C2 |
| but my heart that no ecstasy ever saw | D2 |
| is a stage where ever and again | E2 |
| one awaits in vain the Being with wings of gauze | B2 |
Charles Baudelaire
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