The Litanies Of Satan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCEFCBGCHHCIJCKL CMMCMNCMMCHMCMMCMMCD MCHMCO you the most knowing and loveliest of Angels | A |
a god fate betrayed deprived of praises | B |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
O Prince of exile to whom wrong has been done | D |
who vanquished always recovers more strongly | C |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who know everything king of the underworld | E |
the familiar healer of human distress | F |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who teach even lepers accursed pariahs | B |
through love itself the taste for Paradise | G |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
O you who on Death your ancient true lover | H |
engendered Hope that lunatic charmer | H |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who grant the condemned that calm proud look | I |
that damns a whole people crowding the scaffold | J |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who know in what corners of envious countries | K |
a jealous God hid those stones that are precious | L |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You whose clear eye knows the deep caches | M |
where buried the race of metals slumbers | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You whose huge hands hide the precipice | M |
from the sleepwalker on the sky scraper s cliff | N |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who make magically supple the bones | M |
of the drunkard out late who s trampled by horses | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who taught us to mix saltpetre with sulphur | H |
to console the frail human being who suffers | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who set your mark o subtle accomplice | M |
on the forehead of Croesus the vile and pitiless | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
You who set in the hearts and eyes of young girls | M |
the cult of the wound adoration of rags | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
The exile s staff the light of invention | D |
confessor to those to be hanged to conspirators | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
Father adopting those whom God the Father | H |
drove in dark anger from the earthly paradise | M |
O Satan take pity on my long misery | C |
Charles Baudelaire
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