The Sky Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FFG HIG| Where'er he be on water or on land | A |
| Under pale suns or climes that flames enfold | B |
| One of Christ's own or of Cythera's band | A |
| Shadowy beggar or Croesus rich with gold | B |
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| Citizen peasant student tramp whate'er | C |
| His little brain may be alive or dead | D |
| Man knows the fear of mystery everywhere | E |
| And peeps with trembling glances overhead | D |
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| The heaven above A strangling cavern wall | F |
| The lighted ceiling of a music hall | F |
| Where every actor treads a bloody soil | G |
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| The hermit's hope the terror of the sot | H |
| The sky the black lid of the mighty pot | I |
| Where the vast human generations boil | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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