The Ragman's Wine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGF HHII JFEE FFKK FFLL GGMM| Often beneath a street lamp's reddish light | A |
| Where wind torments the glass and flame by night | A |
| Where mankind swarms in stormy turbulence | B |
| Within a suburb's muddy labyrinth | C |
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| One comes upon a shaking ragman who | D |
| Staggers against the walls as poets do | D |
| And disregardful of policemen's spies | E |
| Pours from his heart some glorious enterprise | E |
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| Swearing his oaths he dictates laws he's made | F |
| To vanquish evil bring the victims aid | F |
| And there beneath the sky a canopy | G |
| Grows drunk upon his own sublimity | F |
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| Yes and these men harassed by household strife | H |
| Tortured by age bruised by the blows of life | H |
| Under their heaps of rubbish burdened down | I |
| The dregs the vomit of this teeming town | I |
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| Appear again redolent of the jar | J |
| With their companions bleached and battle scarred | F |
| Moustaches like the rags of bannerets | E |
| Arches of triumph rise before their steps | E |
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| A solemn magic flags and flowers too | F |
| And in this orgy dazzling to the view | F |
| Of cheers of bugles drums the sun above | K |
| They glorify a people drunk with love | K |
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| And so it is like Pactolus of old | F |
| For fickle Humankind wine rolls with gold | F |
| By human throat wine finds a voice to sing | L |
| And reigns by all its gifts a proper king | L |
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| To drown the spite and dull the lethargy | G |
| Of damned old men who die in secrecy | G |
| Remorseful God gave sleep to every one | M |
| Man added wine true scion of the Sun | M |
Charles Baudelaire
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