Femmes Damnées Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DCCC EFEC CGCG CGCG HIHI| Like pensive cattle lying on the sands | A |
| they turn their eyes towards the sea's far hills | B |
| and feet searching each other's touching hands | A |
| know sweet languor and the bitterest thrills | B |
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| Some where the stream babbles deep in the woods | C |
| their hearts enamoured of long intimacies | C |
| go spelling out the loves of their own girlhoods | C |
| and carving the green bark of young trees | C |
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| Others like Sisters walk gravely and slow | D |
| among the rocks full of apparitions | C |
| where Saint Anthony saw like lava flows | C |
| the bared crimson breasts of his temptations | C |
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| There are those in the melting candle's glimmer | E |
| who in mute hollows of caves still pagan | F |
| call on you to relieve their groaning fever | E |
| O Bacchus to soothe the remorse of the ancients | C |
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| And others whose throats love scapularies | C |
| who hiding whips under their long vestment | G |
| in the sombre groves of the night solitaries | C |
| blend the sweats of joy with the tears of torment | G |
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| O virgins o demons o monsters o martyrs | C |
| great spirits despisers of reality | G |
| now full of cries now full of tears | C |
| pious and lustful seeking infinity | G |
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| you whom my soul has pursued to your hell | H |
| poor sisters I adore you as much as I weep | I |
| for your dismal sufferings thirsts that swell | H |
| and the vessels of love where your great hearts steep | I |
Charles Baudelaire
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