L'aube Spirituelle (spiritual Dawn) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA BBBB CDD CAA E ECAC CCCB CFC CAG B E AHAH AIAI CCC CGG A A DJJD BJJB KCC KGG C| Quand chez les d bauch s l'aube blanche et vermeille | A |
| Entre en soci t de l'Id al rongeur | B |
| Par l'op ration d'un myst re vengeur | B |
| Dans la brute assoupie un ange se r veille | A |
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| Des Cieux Spirituels l'inaccessible azur | B |
| Pour l'homme terrass qui r ve encore et souffre | B |
| S'ouvre et s'enfonce avec l'attirance du gouffre | B |
| Ainsi ch re D esse Etre lucide et pur | B |
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| Sur les d bris fumeux des stupides orgies | C |
| Ton souvenir plus clair plus rose plus charmant | D |
| mes yeux agrandis voltige incessamment | D |
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| Le soleil a noirci la flamme des bougies | C |
| Ainsi toujours vainqueur ton fant me est pareil | A |
| Ame resplendissante l'immortel soleil | A |
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| Spiritual Dawn | E |
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| When debauchees are roused by the white rosy dawn | E |
| Escorted by the Ideal which gnaws at their hearts | C |
| Through the action of a mysterious vengeful law | A |
| In the somnolent brute an Angel awakens | C |
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| The inaccessible blue of Spiritual Heavens | C |
| For the man thrown to earth who suffers and still dreams | C |
| Opens and yawns with the lure of the abyss | C |
| Thus dear Goddess Being lucid and pure | B |
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| Over the smoking ruins of stupid orgies | C |
| Your memory clearer more rosy more charming | F |
| Hovers incessantly before my widened eyes | C |
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| The sunlight has darkened the flame of the candles | C |
| Thus ever triumphant resplendent soul | A |
| Your phantom is like the immortal sun | G |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | B |
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| Spiritual Dawn | E |
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| When in the company of the Ideal | A |
| That gnawing tooth Dawn enters white and pink | H |
| The rooms of rakes each sated beast can feel | A |
| An Angel waking through the fumes of drink | H |
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| For downcast Man who dreams and suffers still | A |
| The azure of the mystic heaven above | I |
| With gulf like vertigo attracts his will | A |
| So Goddess lucid Being of pure love | I |
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| Over the smoking wreck of feasts and scandals | C |
| Your phantom rosy and enchanting flies | C |
| And still returns to my dilated eyes | C |
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| The sun has blackened out the flame of candles | C |
| So your victorious phantom seems as one | G |
| O blazing spirit with the deathless Sun | G |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | A |
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| L'Aube spirituelle | A |
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| when to the drunkard's room the flushing East | D |
| comes with her comrade sharply clawed the Dream | J |
| she wakens by a dark avenging scheme | J |
| an angel in the dull besotted beast | D |
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| deep vaults of inaccessible azure there | B |
| before the dreamer sick with many a phasm | J |
| open abysmal as a beckoning chasm | J |
| thus deity all pure clear light and air | B |
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| over the stupid orgy's reeking track | K |
| brighter and lovelier yet thine image flies | C |
| in fluttering rays before my widening eyes | C |
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| the sun has turned the candles' flame to black | K |
| even so victorious always thou art one | G |
| resplendent spirit with the eternal sun | G |
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| Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | C |
Charles Baudelaire
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