The Venal Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FFG DDG| Muse of my heart lover of palaces | A |
| When January comes with wind and sleet | B |
| During the snowy eve's long weariness | C |
| Will there be fire to warm thy violet feet | B |
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| Wilt thou reanimate thy marble shoulders | D |
| In the moon beams that through the window fly | E |
| Or when thy purse dries up thy palace moulders | D |
| Reap the far star gold of the vaulted sky | E |
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| For thou to keep thy body to thy soul | F |
| Must swing a censor wear a holy stole | F |
| And chaunt Te Deums with unbelief between | G |
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| Or like a starving mountebank expose | D |
| Thy beauty and thy tear drowned smile to those | D |
| Who wait thy jests to drive away thy spleen | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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