The Litanies Of Satan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCCEFCBGCHHCIJCKL CMMCMNCMMCHMCMMCMMCD MCHMC| O 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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