The Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEBFGHIJCKCKL LDMDNONO| I was the height of a folio my bed just | A |
| backed on the bookcases sombre Babel | B |
| everything Latin ashes Greek dust | A |
| jumbled together novel science fable | B |
| Two voices spoke to me One firmly slyly | C |
| said The Earth s a cake filled with sweetness | D |
| I can give you and your pleasure will be | C |
| endless an appetite of comparable vastness | D |
| The other said Come Come voyage in dream | E |
| beyond the known beyond the possible | B |
| And that one sang like the ocean breeze | F |
| phantom from who knows where its wail | G |
| caressing the ear and yet still frightening | H |
| You I answered Yes Gentle voice My | I |
| wound and what I d call my fatality begins | J |
| alas from then From behind the scenery | C |
| of vast existence in voids without light | K |
| I see the strangest worlds distinctly | C |
| ecstatic victim of my second sight | K |
| snakes follow me striking at my feet | L |
| Since then like the prophets I greet | L |
| the desert and the sea with tenderness | D |
| I laugh at funerals I cry at feasts | M |
| wine tastes smooth that s full of bitterness | D |
| and eyes on the sky I fall into holes | N |
| and frequently I take facts for lies | O |
| But Keep your dreams the Voice consoles | N |
| Madmen have sweeter ones than the wise | O |
Charles Baudelaire
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