Gods In The Gutter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD DDD EEE FFF| I dreamed I saw three demi gods who in a cafe sat | A |
| And one was small and crapulous and one was large and fat | A |
| And one was eaten up with vice and verminous at that | A |
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| The first he spoke of secret sins and gems and perfumes rare | B |
| And velvet cats and courtesans voluptuously fair | B |
| Who is the Sybarite I asked They answered Baudelaire | B |
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| The second talked in tapestries by fantasy beguiled | C |
| As frail as bubbles hard as gems his pageantries he piled | C |
| This Lord of Language who is he They whispered Oscar Wilde | C |
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| The third was staring at his glass from out abysmal pain | D |
| With tears his eyes were bitten in beneath his bulbous brain | D |
| Who is the sodden wretch I said They told me Paul Verlaine | D |
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| Oh Wilde Verlaine and Baudelaire their lips were wet with wine | D |
| Oh poseur pimp and libertine Oh cynic sot and swine | D |
| Oh votaries of velvet vice Oh gods of light divine | D |
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| Oh Baudelaire Verlaine and Wilde they knew the sinks of shame | E |
| Their sun aspiring wings they scorched at passion's altar flame | E |
| Yet lo enthroned enskied they stand Immortal Sons of Fame | E |
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| I dreamed I saw three demi gods who walked with feet of clay | F |
| With cruel crosses on their backs along a miry way | F |
| Who climbed and climbed the bitter steep to which men turn and pray | F |
Robert Service
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