Litany To Satan (from Baudelaire.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CCB DEB FFB GGG GGG HHG IIG JJG KKG LLG MMG NOG PQGO grandest of the Angels and most wise | A |
O fallen God fate driven from the skies | A |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | B |
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O first of exiles who endurest wrong | C |
Yet growest in thy hatred still more strong | C |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | B |
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O subterranean King omniscient | D |
Healer of man's immortal discontent | E |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | B |
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To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show | F |
That Passion is the Paradise below | F |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | B |
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Thou by thy mistress Death hast given to man | G |
Hope the imperishable courtesan | G |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thou givest to the Guilty their calm mien | G |
Which damns the crowd around the guillotine | G |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thou knowest the corners of the jealous Earth | H |
Where God has hidden jewels of great worth | H |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thou dost discover by mysterious signs | I |
Where sleep the buried people of the mines | I |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thou stretchest forth a saving hand to keep | J |
Such men as roam upon the roofs in sleep | J |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thy power can make the halting Drunkard's feet | K |
Avoid the peril of the surging street | K |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thou to console our helplessness didst plot | L |
The cunning use of powder and of shot | L |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Thy awful name is written as with pitch | M |
On the unrelenting foreheads of the rich | M |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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In strange and hidden places thou dost move | N |
Where women cry for torture in their love | O |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
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Father of those whom God's tempestuous ire | P |
Has flung from Paradise with sword and fire | Q |
Satan at last take pity on our pain | G |
James Elroy Flecker
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