Don Juan In Hell (from Baudelaire) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CACA DEDE FAFA GHGH| The night Don Juan came to pay his fees | A |
| To Charon by the caverned water's shore | B |
| A beggar proud eyed as Antisthenes | A |
| Stretched out his knotted fingers on the oar | B |
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| Mournful with drooping breasts and robes unsewn | C |
| The shapes of women swayed in ebon skies | A |
| Trailing behind him with a restless moan | C |
| Like cattle herded for a sacrifice | A |
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| Here grinning for his wage stood Sganarelle | D |
| And here Don Luis pointed bent and dim | E |
| To show the dead who lined the holes of Hell | D |
| This was that impious son who mocked at him | E |
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| The hollow eyed the chaste Elvira came | F |
| Trembling and veiled to view her traitor spouse | A |
| Was it one last bright smile she thought to claim | F |
| Such as made sweet the morning of his vows | A |
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| A great stone man rose like a tower on board | G |
| Stood at the helm and cleft the flood profound | H |
| But the calm hero leaning on his sword | G |
| Gazed back and would not offer one look round | H |
James Elroy Flecker
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