The Alchemy Of Grief - (twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC BBD BEF| One Nature burns and makes thee bright | A |
| One gives thee weeds to mourn withal | B |
| And what to one is burial | B |
| Is to the other life and light | A |
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| The unknown Hermes who assists | C |
| And alway fills my heart with fear | D |
| Makes me the mighty Midas' peer | D |
| The saddest of the alchemists | C |
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| Through him I make gold changeable | B |
| To dross and paradise to hell | B |
| Clouds for its corpse cloths I descry | D |
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| A stark dead body I love well | B |
| And in the gleaming fields on high | E |
| I build immense sarcophagi | F |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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