Don Juan In Hell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BABA CBCB DEDE FBFB GHGHfrom Baudelaire | A |
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The night Don Juan came to pay his fees | B |
To Charon by the caverned water's shore | A |
A beggar proud eyed as Antisthenes | B |
Stretched out his knotted fingers on the oar | A |
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Mournful with drooping breasts and robes unsewn | C |
The shapes of women swayed in ebon skies | B |
Trailing behind him with a restless moan | C |
Like cattle herded for a sacrifice | B |
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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 | B |
Was it one last bright smile she thought to claim | F |
Such as made sweet the morning of his vows | B |
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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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