Her Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDEEF GHGIJ KFLMF INIIN OPQRP BGISG| O fleece that down the neck waves to the nape | A |
| O curls O perfume nonchalant and rare | B |
| O ecstasy To fill this alcove shape | A |
| With memories that in these tresses sleep | A |
| I would shake them like penions in the air | B |
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| Languorous Asia burning Africa | C |
| And a far world defunct almost absent | D |
| Within your aromatic forest stay | E |
| As other souls on music drift away | E |
| Mine O my love still floats upon your scent | F |
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| I shall go there where full of sap both tree | G |
| And man swoon in the heat of the southern climates | H |
| Strong tresses be the swell that carries me | G |
| I dream upon your sea of amber | I |
| Of dazzling sails of oarsmen masts and flames | J |
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| A sun drenched and reverberating port | K |
| Where I imbibe colour and sound and scent | F |
| Where vessels gliding through the gold and moir | L |
| Open their vast arms as they leave the shore | M |
| To clasp the pure and shimmering firmament | F |
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| I'll plunge my head enamored of its pleasure | I |
| In this black ocean where the other hides | N |
| My subtle spirit then will know a measure | I |
| Of fertile idleness and fragrant leisure | I |
| Lulled by the infinite rhythm of its tides | N |
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| Pavilion of autumn shadowed tresses spun | O |
| You give me back the azure from afar | P |
| And where the twisted locks are fringed with down | Q |
| Lurk mingled odors I grow drunk upon | R |
| Of oil of coconut of musk and tar | P |
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| A long time always my hand in your hair | B |
| Will sow the stars of sapphire pearl ruby | G |
| That you be never deaf to my desire | I |
| My oasis and my gourd whence I aspire | S |
| To drink deep of the wine of memory | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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