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SHAME by ARTHUR RIMBAUD

Poet Analysis

First Line: AS LONG AS THE BLADE HAS NOT CUT THROUGH
Last Line: AT HIS DEATH HOWEVER, O %MY GOD! LET THERE ARISE SOME PRAYER!

Poem Sources:

FOUR FRENCH SYMBOLIST POETS; BAUDELAIRE, RIMBAUD, VERLAINE, MALLARME.
  PESCHEL, ENID RHODES (TR.)
  (1981)
 



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