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Baudelaire builds stanzas where it would seem almost impossible to construct<br />

them. Thus, in the sixth stanza of "Lesbos:" "ambitious hearts / that yearn, far<br />

from us, for a radiant smile / they dimly glimpse on the rim of other skies!"362<br />

[J68a,8]<br />

On the desecration of the clouds : "Wandering a wasteland at high noon / . .. I<br />

saw a dismal stormcloud bearing down / upon my head, bristling witll vicious<br />

imps"363_this is a conception that could stem directly from a print by Meryon.<br />

[J69,1]<br />

It is rare in French poetry that the big city is evoked through nothing but the<br />

immediate presentation of its inhabitants. This occurs with unsurpassable power<br />

in Shelley's poem on London

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