Afternoon Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEEF GHHI JKKJ LBMN NONN PQQR ENNS SNNS BNNB| Though your eyebrows surprise | A |
| and give you an air of strangeness | B |
| which isn't that of the angels | C |
| witch with seductive eyes | A |
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| I adore my frivolous girl | D |
| my terrible passion | E |
| with the devotion | E |
| of a priest for his idol | F |
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| The forest and the desert | G |
| perfume your wild hair | H |
| your head has an air | H |
| of the enigma the secret | I |
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| Round your flesh perfume sweet | J |
| swirls like a censer's cloud | K |
| you bewitch like the twilight's shroud | K |
| nymph of shadows and heat | J |
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| Ah The strongest potions made | L |
| can't match your idleness | B |
| and you know the caress | M |
| that resurrects the dead | N |
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| Your hips are enamoured | N |
| of your back and your breasts | O |
| and the cushions are ravished | N |
| with your poses so languid | N |
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| Sometimes to appease | P |
| your rage mysteriously | Q |
| you lavish gravely | Q |
| your bites and your kisses | R |
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| You tear me my dark haired one | E |
| with a mocking smile's art | N |
| and then cast on my heart | N |
| your gaze sweet as the moon | S |
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| Under your shoes so satiny | S |
| your graceful silken feet | N |
| I lay my genius my wit | N |
| my joy and my destiny | S |
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| restorer of my health's sweetness | B |
| you all color and light | N |
| explosion of warmth bright | N |
| in my Siberian darkness | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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