Spleen - (twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGI JKJK| When the low heavy sky weighs like a lid | A |
| Upon the spirit aching for the light | B |
| And all the wide horizon's line is hid | A |
| By a black day sadder than any night | B |
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| When the changed earth is but a dungeon dank | C |
| Where batlike Hope goes blindly fluttering | D |
| And striking wall and roof and mouldered plank | C |
| Bruises his tender head and timid wing | D |
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| When like grim prison bars stretch down the thin | E |
| Straight rigid pillars of the endless rain | F |
| And the dumb throngs of infamous spiders spin | E |
| Their meshes in the caverns of the brain | F |
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| Suddenly bells leap forth into the air | G |
| Hurling a hideous uproar to the sky | H |
| As 'twere a band of homeless spirits who fare | G |
| Through the strange heavens wailing stubbornly | I |
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| And hearses without drum or instrument | J |
| File slowly through my soul crushed sorrowful | K |
| Weeps Hope and Grief fierce and omnipotent | J |
| Plants his black banner on my drooping skull | K |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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