The Owls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDECFGDHDB| Among the black yews their shelter | A |
| the owls are ranged in a row | B |
| like alien deities the glow | B |
| of their red eyes pierces They ponder | A |
| They perch there without moving | C |
| till that melancholy moment | D |
| when quenching the falling sun | E |
| the shadows are growing | C |
| Their stance teaches the wise | F |
| to fear in this world of ours | G |
| all tumult and all movement | D |
| Mankind drunk on brief shadows | H |
| always incurs a punishment | D |
| for his longing to stir and go | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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