Chanson D'après-midi (afternoon Song) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Chanson D'après-midi (afternoon Song) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Quoique tes sourcils m chants	A
Te donnent un air trange	B
Qui n'est pas celui d'un ange	B
Sorci re aux yeux all chants	A
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Je t'adore ma frivole	C
Ma terrible passion	D
Avec la d votion	D
Du pr tre pour son idole	C
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Le d sert et la for t	E
Embaument tes tresses rudes	A
Ta t te a les attitudes	A
De l' nigme et du secret	F
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Sur ta chair le parfum r de	E
Comme autour d'un encensoir	G
Tu charmes comme le soir	G
Nymphe t n breuse et chaude	E
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Ah les philtres les plus forts	A
Ne valent pas ta paresse	A
Et tu connais la caresse	A
Ou fait revivre les morts	A
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Tes hanches sont amoureuses	A
De ton dos et de tes seins	A
Et tu ravis les coussins	A
Par tes poses langoureuses	A
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Quelquefois pour apaiser	G
Ta rage myst rieuse	A
Tu prodigues s rieuse	A
La morsure et le baiser	G
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Tu me d chires ma brune	D
Avec un rire moqueur	G
Et puis tu mets sur mon coeur	G
Ton oeil doux comme la lune	D
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Sous tes souliers de satin	D
Sous tes charmants pieds de soie	A
Moi je mets ma grande joie	B
Mon g nie et mon destin	D
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Mon me par toi gu rie	G
Par toi lumi re et couleur	G
Explosion de chaleur	G
Dans ma noire Sib rie	G
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Afternoon Song	H
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Though your mischievous eyebrows	A
Give you a singular air	G
Not that of an angel	C
Sorceress with Siren's eyes	A
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I adore you my madcap	I
My ineffable passion	D
With the pious devotion	D
Of a priest for his idol	C
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Your stiff tresses are scented	E
With the desert and forest	E
Your head assumes the poses	A
Of the enigma and key	E
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Perfume lingers about your flesh	J
Like incense about a censer	G
You charm like the evening	K
Tenebrous passionate nymph	L
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Ah the most potent philtres	A
Are weaker than your languor	G
And you know the caresses	A
That make the dead live again	D
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Your haunches are enamored	E
Of your back and your bosom	M
And you delight the cushions	A
With your languorous poses	A
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Sometimes to alleviate	E
Your mysterious passion	D
You lavish resolutely	E
Your bites and your kisses	A
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You tear me open dark beauty	E
With derisive laughter	G
And then look at my heart	E
With eyes as soft as moonlight	E
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Under your satin slippers	A
Under your dear silken feet	E
I place all my happiness	A
My genius and destiny	E
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My soul brought to life by you	N
By your clear light and color	G
Explosion of heat	E
In my dark Siberia	G
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Translated by William Aggeler	G
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Song of Afternoon	D
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Though your eyebrows' wicked slant	E
Give you an intriguing air	G
Which the angels do not share	G
Sorceress whose eyes enchant	E
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My passion terrible yet gay	O
With all my heart I bow before you	N
With that devotion to adore you	N
That priests to sacred idols pay	O
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Deserts and woods embalmed your hair	G
Its movements give your head the stigma	G
Of sphinx like secret and enigma	G
Both in its attitude and air	G
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As round a censer vapours form	P
About your flesh the perfumes wander	G
The selfsame charms you seem to squander	G
As does an evening dark yet warm	P
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The strongest philtres cannot craze	A
As does your indolent address	A
And you have mastered a caress	A
Dead corpses from their tombs to raise	A
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Your hips are amorous of your breast	E
And of your back your languorous pose	A
Enchants the cushions where you doze	A
When in their depths you make your nest	E
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Sometimes in order to appease	A
Mysterious rages in your soul	C
You bite and kiss without control	C
Then with a mocking laugh you tease	A
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My heart brown beauty tearing it	E
Then over it the light is strewn	D
Of your eye softer than the moon	D
Till with its glance my soul is lit	E
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Underneath your satin shoes	A
And underneath your silken feet	E
My joy my fate my genius meet	E
To strew the pathway of my muse	A
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My soul is healed restored and made complete	E
By you all colour warmth and light	E
In my Siberia a bright	E
Explosion as of tropic heat	E
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Translated by Roy Campbell	C
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Afternoon Song	H
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O witch with sharp alluring eyes	A
Although your evil eyebrows lend	E
Your strange ways little of the friend	E
And even less of angel skies	A
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How I adore your madcap verve	Q
How deeply rooted my fell passion	D
I worship you in the rapt fashion	D
Of priests for idols that they serve	Q
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Your stiff dense tresses fragrantly	C
Conjure up wilderness and wood	E
Your head assumes each attitude	E
Of the enigma and its key	E
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Perfumes cling closely to your flesh	J
As incense to a censer bright	E
And dusky nymph you are all Night	E
Secret and passionate and fresh	J
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The strongest philter vies in vain	D
Power against your languidness	A
Too well you know the sweet caress	A
That brings the dead to life again	D
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Your haunches are enamored of	R
Your supple back and surging breast	E
And when posed torpidly you rest	E
Your cushions taste the charms of love	R
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Sometimes to quell the rageful fire	G
Of your mysterious lust you lavish	S
Obstinate kiss and bite to ravish	S
The throbbing prey of your desire	G
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You rend my body to its seams	A
Dark beauty with your mocking laughter	G
Then fill my heart a moment after	G
With glances soft as the moon's beams	A
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Under your satin slippers see	A
Under your blest silk feet I lay	C
The vast sum of my joys today	C
My genius my destiny	A
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My soul enlivened by your spark	T
Your radiance and color sweet	E
Explosion of fierce tropic heat	E
Across my chill Siberian dark	T
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	U
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Afternoon Song	H
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Though your wicked eyebrows call	C
Your nature into question	D
Unangelic's their suggestion	D
Witch whose eyes enthrall	C
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I adore you still	C
O foolish terrible emotion	D
Kneeling in devotion	D
As a priest to his idol will	C
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Your undone braids conceal	C
Desert forest scents	A
In your exotic countenance	A
Lie secrets unrevealed	E
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Over your flesh perfume drifts	A
Like incense 'round a censor	G
Tantalizing dispenser	G
Of evening's ardent gifts	A
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No Philtres could compete	E
With your potent idleness	A
You've mastered the caress	A
That raises dead me to their feet	E
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Your hips themselves are romanced	E
By your back and by your breasts	A
By your languid dalliance	A
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Now and then your appetite's	A
Uncontrolled unassuaged	E
Mysteriously enraged	E
You kiss me and you bite	E
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Dark one I am torn	D
By your savage ways	A
Then soft as the moon your gaze	A
Sees my tortured heart reborn	D
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Beneath your satin shoe	S
Beneath your charming silken foot	E
My greatest joy I put	E
My genius and destiny too	S
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You bring my spirit back	V
Bringer of the light	E
Exploding color in the night	E
Of my Siberia so black	V
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By Anonymous	A