The Living Torch Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEB FFB| Those lit eyes go before me in full view | A |
| Some cunning angel magnetised their light | B |
| Heavenly twins yet my own brothers too | A |
| Shaking their diamond blaze into my sight | B |
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| My steps from every trap or sin to save | C |
| In the strait road of Beauty they conduct me | D |
| They are my servants and I am their slave | C |
| Obedient in whatever they instruct me | D |
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| Delightful eyes you burn with mystic rays | E |
| Like candles in broad day red suns may blaze | E |
| But cannot quench their still fantastic light | B |
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| Those candles burn for death but you for waking | F |
| You sing the dawn that in my soul is breaking | F |
| Stars which no sun could ever put to flight | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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