The Lid Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADADEFGHBG| Whatever place he goes on land or sea | A |
| under a sky on fire or a polar sun | B |
| servant of Jesus follower of Cytherea | C |
| shadowy beggar or Croesus the glittering one | B |
| city dweller or rustic traveller or sedentary | A |
| whether his tiny brain works fast or slow | D |
| everywhere man knows the terror of mystery | A |
| and with a trembling eye looks high or low | D |
| Above the Sky That burial vault that stifles | E |
| a ceiling lit for a comic opera blind walls | F |
| where each actor treads a blood drenched stage | G |
| Freethinkers fear the hermit sets his hope on | H |
| the Sky The black lid of the giant cauldron | B |
| under which we vast invisible Beings rage | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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