On Re-reading Baudelaire Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAABBADEADEA| Forgetting still what holier lilies bloom | A |
| Secure within the garden of lost years | B |
| We water with the fitfulness of tears | C |
| Wan myrtles with an acrid sick perfume | A |
| Lethean lotus laurels of our doom | A |
| Dark amarant with tall unswaying spears | B |
| Await funereal autumn and its fears | B |
| In this grey land that sullen suns illume | A |
| Ivy and rose and hellebore we twine | D |
| Voluptuous as love or keen as grief | E |
| Some fleeing fragrance lures us in the gloom | A |
| To Paphian dells or vales of Proserpine | D |
| But all the flowers with dark or pallid leaf | E |
| Become at last a garland for the tomb | A |
Clark Ashton Smith
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