The Metamorphoses Of The Vampire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHIBJ KKLMNIOOPQRH| Twisting and writhing like a snake on fiery sands | A |
| Kneading her breast against her corset's metal bands | A |
| The woman meanwhile from her mouth of strawberry | B |
| Let flow these fragrant words of musky mystery | B |
| 'I have the moistest lip and well know the skill | C |
| Within a bed's soft heart to lose the moral will | C |
| I dry up all your tears on my triumphant bust | D |
| And make the old ones laugh like children in their lust | D |
| I take the place for those who see my naked arts | E |
| Of moon and of the sun and all the other stars | F |
| I am my dear savant so studied in my charms | G |
| That when I stifle men within my ardent arms | G |
| Or when I give my breast to their excited bites | H |
| Shy or unrestrained of passionate delight | I |
| On all those mattresses that swoon in ecstasy | B |
| Even helpless angels damn themselves for me ' | J |
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| When she had drained the marrow out of all my bones | K |
| When I turned listlessly amid my languid moans | K |
| To give a kiss of love no thing was with me but | L |
| A greasy leather flask that overflowed with pus | M |
| Frozen with terror then I clenched both of my eyes | N |
| When I reopened them into the living light | I |
| I saw I was beside no vampire mannequin | O |
| That lived by having sucked the blood out of my skin | O |
| But bits of skeleton some rattling remains | P |
| That spoke out with the clacking of a weather vane | Q |
| Or of a hanging shop sign on an iron spike | R |
| Swung roughly by the wind on gusty winter nights | H |
Charles Baudelaire
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