The Poison Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCB DEEEE EFFGH CIJCK| Wine can clothe the most sordid hole | A |
| in miraculous luxury | B |
| and let many a fabulous portico float free | B |
| in the gold of its red glow | C |
| like a setting sun in the sky's cloudy sea | B |
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| Opium expands things without boundaries | D |
| extends the limitless | E |
| makes time profounder deepens voluptuousness | E |
| fills the soul beyond its capacities | E |
| with the pleasures of gloom and of darkness | E |
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| None of that equals the poison that flows | E |
| from your eyes your eyes of green | F |
| lakes where mirrored my trembling soul is seen | F |
| my dreams come flocking a host | G |
| to quench their thirst in the bitter stream | H |
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| None of that equals the dreadful marvel though | C |
| of your saliva's venom | I |
| that plunges my soul remorseless into oblivion | J |
| and causing vertigo | C |
| rolls it swooning towards the shores of doom | K |
Charles Baudelaire
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