The Louse-hunters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABAB ACAC DAAA EDCD FGFH| From the French of Rimbaud | A |
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| When the child's forehead full of torments red | A |
| Cries out for sleep and its pale host of dreams | B |
| His two big sisters come unto his bed | A |
| Having long fingers tipped with silvery gleams | B |
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| They set him at a casement open wide | A |
| On seas of flowers that stir in the blue airs | C |
| And through his curls all wet with dew they slide | A |
| Those terrible searching finger tips of theirs | C |
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| He hears them breathing softly fearfully | D |
| Honey sweet ruminations slow respired | A |
| Then a sharp hiss breaks time and melody | A |
| Spittle indrawn old kisses new desired | A |
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| Down through the perfumed silences he hears | E |
| Their eyelids fluttering long fingers thrill | D |
| Probing a lassitude bedimmed with tears | C |
| While the nails crunch at every louse they kill | D |
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| He is drunk with Languor soft accordion sigh | F |
| Delirious wine of Love in Idleness | G |
| Longings for tears come welling up and die | F |
| As slow or swift he feels their magical caress | H |
Aldous Huxley
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