Venus And The Fool Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH| How admirable the day The vast park swoons beneath the burning eye of the sun as youth beneath the lordship of love | A |
| There is no rumour of the universal ecstasy of all things The waters themselves are as though drifting into sleep Very different from the festivals of humanity here is a silent revel | B |
| It seems as though an ever waning light makes all objects glimmer more and more as though the excited flowers burn with a desire to rival the blue of the sky by the vividness of their colours as though the heat making perfumes visible drives them in vapour towards their star | C |
| Yet in the midst of this universal joy I have perceived one afflicted thing | D |
| At the feet of a colossal Venus one of those motley fools those willing clowns whose business it is to bring laughter upon kings when weariness or remorse possesses them lies wrapped in his gaudy and ridiculous garments coiffed with his cap and bells huddled against the pedestal and raises towards the goddess his eyes filled with tears | E |
| And his eyes say | F |
| I am the last and most alone of all mortals inferior to the meanest of animals in that I am denied either love or friendship Yet I am made even I for the understanding and enjoyment of immortal Beauty O Goddess have pity upon my sadness and my frenzy | G |
| The implacable Venus gazed into I know not what distances with her marble eyes | H |
Charles Baudelaire
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