Horreur Sympathique (sympathetic Horror) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ABAB CDD CAA E AADB ABAC AAF CBA E E ADDA DCDC GGC CDD D| De ce ciel bizarre et livide | A |
| Tourment comme ton destin | B |
| Quels pensers dans ton me vide | A |
| Descendent r ponds libertin | B |
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| Insatiablement avide | A |
| De l'obscur et de l'incertain | B |
| Je ne geindrai pas comme Ovide | A |
| Chass du paradis latin | B |
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| Cieux d chir s comme des gr ves | C |
| En vous se mire mon orgueil | D |
| Vos vastes nuages en deuil | D |
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| Sont les corbillards de mes r ves | C |
| Et vos lueurs sont le reflet | A |
| De l'Enfer o mon coeur se pla t | A |
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| Reflected Horror | E |
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| From that sky bizarre and livid | A |
| Distorted as your destiny | A |
| What thoughts into your empty soul | D |
| Descend Answer me libertine | B |
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| Insatiably avid | A |
| For the dark and the uncertain | B |
| I shall not whimper like Ovid | A |
| Chased from his Latin paradise | C |
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| Skies torn like the shores of the sea | A |
| You are the mirror of my pride | A |
| Your vast clouds in mourning | F |
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| Are the black hearses of my dreams | C |
| And your gleams are the reflection | B |
| Of the Hell which delights my heart | A |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | E |
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| Sympathetic Horror | E |
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| From livid skies that without end | A |
| As stormy as your future roll | D |
| What thoughts into your empty soul | D |
| Answer me libertine descend | A |
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| Insatiable yet for all | D |
| That turns on darkness doom or dice | C |
| I'll not like Ovid mourn my fall | D |
| Chased from the Latin paradise | C |
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| Skies torn like seacoasts by the storm | G |
| In you I see my pride take form | G |
| And the huge clouds that rush in streams | C |
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| Are the black hearses of my dreams | C |
| And your red rays reflect the hell | D |
| In which my heart is pleased to dwell | D |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | D |
Charles Baudelaire
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