Poet Charles Baudelaire

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I Love The Thought Of Ancient, Naked Days Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEEFGHHII JDGGKLGMBBNNGO GGGGGNPPGQGG

I love the thought of ancient naked daysA
When Phoebus gilded statues with his raysA
Then women men in their agilityB
Played without guile without anxietyB
And while the sky stroked lovingly their skinC
They tuned to health their excellent machineD
Cybele in offering her bounty thereE
Found mortals not a heavy weight to bearE
But she wolf full of common tendernessF
From her brown nipples fed the universeG
Man had the right robust and flourishingH
Of pride in beauties who proclaimed him kingH
Pure fruit unsullied lovely to the sightI
Whose smooth firm flesh went asking for the biteI
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Today the Poet when he would conceiveJ
These native grandeurs where can now be seenD
Women and men in all their nakednessG
Feels in his soul a chill of hopelessnessG
Before this terrible and bleak tableauK
Monstrosities that cry out to be clothedL
Bodies grotesque and only fit for masquesG
Poor twisted trunks scrawny or gone to flabM
Whose god implacable UtilityB
In brazen wraps swaddles his progenyB
And pale as tapers all you women tooN
Corruption gnaws and nourishes and youN
O virgins heir to all matemal viceG
And all the squalor of the fecund lifeO
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It's true we have in our corrupted statesG
Beauties unknown to ancient people's tastesG
Visages gnawed by sores of syphilisG
And one might say beauties of listlessnessG
But these inventions of our tardy museG
Never avert the sickly modem crewN
From rendering to youth their deepest bowP
To holy youth to smooth untroubled browP
To limpid eye to air of innocenceG
Who pours out on us all indifferentQ
As flowers birds the blue of sky or seaG
His perfumes songs his sweet vitalityG

Charles Baudelaire



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