The Vampyre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLM JNON PQR| You invaded my sorrowful heart | A |
| Like the sudden stroke of a blade | B |
| Bold as a lunatic troupe | C |
| Of demons in drunken parade | B |
| - | |
| You in my mortified soul | D |
| Made your bed and your domain | E |
| Abhorrence to whom am bound | F |
| As the convict is to the chain | E |
| - | |
| As the drunkard is to the jug | G |
| As the gambler to the game | H |
| As to the vermin the corpse | I |
| I damn you out of my shame | H |
| - | |
| And I prayed to the eager sword | J |
| To win my deliverance | K |
| And have asked the perfidious vial | L |
| To redeem my cowardice | M |
| - | |
| Alas the vial and the sword | J |
| Disdainfully said to me | N |
| 'You are not worthy to lift | O |
| From your wretched slavery | N |
| - | |
| You fool if from her command | P |
| Our efforts delivered you forth | Q |
| Your kisses would waken again | R |
| Your vampire lover's corpse ' | - |
Charles Baudelaire
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