The Sick Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCACBBA DDD BBC E F| My impoverished muse alas What have you for me this morning | A |
| Your empty eyes are stocked with nocturnal visions | B |
| In your cheek's cold and taciturn reflection | C |
| I see insanity and horror forming | A |
| The green succubus and the red urchin | C |
| Have they poured you fear and love from their urns | B |
| The nightmare of a mutinous fist that despotically turns | B |
| Does it drown you at the bottom of a loch beyond searching | A |
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| I wish that your breast exhaled the scent of sanity | D |
| That your womb of thought was not a tomb more frequently | D |
| And that your Christian blood flowed around a buoy that was rhythmical | D |
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| Like the numberless sounds of antique syllables | B |
| Where reigns in turn the father of songs | B |
| Phoebus and the great Pan the harvest sovereign | C |
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| Translated by William A Sigler | E |
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| Submitted by Ryan McGuire | F |
Charles Baudelaire
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