La Chevelure (her Hair) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAA BCBBD EFEEF AAAAA FDFFD FCFFG CACCA A FFCAH ICCBD ACJDF BAAAC ACBFA FBFFA GFACA A A DFDDF JJDDJ AAFAF FAFAF ADAAD CACCA FFKFK L F AFAAF CCCCC AGAAG FCFFC FGFFG CACCA CFCCF G A AAAAA ACAAC BABBA GCGGI| toison moutonnant jusque sur l'encolure | A |
| boucles parfum charg de nonchaloir | A |
| Extase Pour peupler ce soir l'alc ve obscure | A |
| Des souvenirs dormant dans cette chevelure | A |
| Je la veux agiter dans l'air comme un mouchoir | A |
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| La langoureuse Asie et la br lante Afrique | B |
| Tout un monde lointain absent presque d funt | C |
| Vit dans tes profondeurs for t aromatique | B |
| Comme d'autres esprits voguent sur la musique | B |
| Le mien mon amour nage sur ton parfum | D |
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| J'irai l bas o l'arbre et l'homme pleins de s ve | E |
| Se p ment longuement sous l'ardeur des climats | F |
| Fortes tresses soyez la houle qui m'enl ve | E |
| Tu contiens mer d' b ne un blouissant r ve | E |
| De voiles de rameurs de flammes et de m ts | F |
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| Un port retentissant o mon me peut boire | A |
| grands flots le parfum le son et la couleur | A |
| O les vaisseaux glissant dans l'or et dans la moire | A |
| Ouvrent leurs vastes bras pour embrasser la gloire | A |
| D'un ciel pur o fr mit l' ternelle chaleur | A |
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| Je plongerai ma t te amoureuse d'ivresse | F |
| Dans ce noir oc an o l'autre est enferm | D |
| Et mon esprit subtil que le roulis caresse | F |
| Saura vous retrouver f conde paresse | F |
| Infinis bercements du loisir embaum | D |
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| Cheveux bleus pavillon de t n bres tendues | F |
| Vous me rendez l'azur du ciel immense et rond | C |
| Sur les bords duvet s de vos m ches tordues | F |
| Je m'enivre ardemment des senteurs confondues | F |
| De l'huile de coco du musc et du goudron | G |
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| Longtemps toujours ma main dans ta crini re lourde | C |
| S mera le rubis la perle et le saphir | A |
| Afin qu' mon d sir tu ne sois jamais sourde | C |
| N'es tu pas l'oasis o je r ve et la gourde | C |
| O je hume longs traits le vin du souvenir | A |
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| Head of Hair | A |
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| O fleecy hair falling in curls to the shoulders | F |
| O black locks O perfume laden with nonchalance | F |
| Ecstasy To people the dark alcove tonight | C |
| With memories sleeping in that thick head of hair | A |
| I would like to shake it in the air like a scarf | H |
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| Sweltering Africa and languorous Asia | I |
| A whole far away world absent almost defunct | C |
| Dwells in your depths aromatic forest | C |
| While other spirits glide on the wings of music | B |
| Mine O my love floats upon your perfume | D |
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| I shall go there where trees and men full of vigor | A |
| Are plunged in a deep swoon by the heat of the land | C |
| Heady tresses be the billows that carry me away | J |
| Ebony sea you hold a dazzling dream | D |
| Of rigging of rowers of pennons and of masts | F |
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| A clamorous harbor where my spirit can drink | B |
| In great draughts the perfume the sound and the color | A |
| Where the vessels gliding through the gold and the moire | A |
| Open wide their vast arms to embrace the glory | A |
| Of a clear sky shimmering with everlasting heat | C |
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| I shall bury my head enamored with rapture | A |
| In this black sea where the other is imprisoned | C |
| And my subtle spirit caressed by the rolling | B |
| Will find you once again O fruitful indolence | F |
| Endless lulling of sweet scented leisure | A |
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| Blue black hair pavilion hung with shadows | F |
| You give back to me the blue of the vast round sky | B |
| In the downy edges of your curling tresses | F |
| I ardently get drunk with the mingled odors | F |
| Of oil of coconut of musk and tar | A |
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| A long time Forever my hand in your thick mane | G |
| Will scatter sapphires rubies and pearls | F |
| So that you will never be deaf to my desire | A |
| Aren't you the oasis of which I dream the gourd | C |
| From which I drink deeply the wine of memory | A |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | A |
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| Her Hair | A |
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| O fleece that down her nape rolls plume on plume | D |
| O curls O scent of nonchalance and ease | F |
| What ecstasy To populate this room | D |
| With memories it harbours in its gloom | D |
| I'd shake it like a banner on the breeze | F |
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| Hot Africa and languid Asia play | J |
| An absent world defunct and far away | J |
| Within that scented forest dark and dim | D |
| As other souls on waves of music swim | D |
| Mine on its perfume sails as on the spray | J |
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| I'll journey there where man and sap filled tree | A |
| Swoon in hot light for hours Be you my sea | A |
| Strong tresses Be the breakers and gales | F |
| That waft me Your black river holds for me | A |
| A dream of masts and rowers flames and sails | F |
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| A port resounding there my soul delivers | F |
| With long deep draughts of perfumes scent and clamour | A |
| Where ships that glide through gold and purple rivers | F |
| Fling wide their vast arms to embrace the glamour | A |
| Of skies wherein the heat forever quivers | F |
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| I'll plunge my head in it half drunk with pleasure | A |
| In this black ocean that engulfs her form | D |
| My soul caressed with wavelets there may measure | A |
| Infinite rocking in embalmed leisure | A |
| Creative idleness that fears no storm | D |
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| Blue tresses like a shadow stretching tent | C |
| You shed the blue of heavens round and far | A |
| Along its downy fringes as I went | C |
| I reeled half drunken to confuse the scent | C |
| Of oil of coconuts with musk and tar | A |
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| My hand forever in your mane so dense | F |
| Rubies and pearls and sapphires there will sow | F |
| That you to my desire be never slow | K |
| Oasis of my dreams and gourd from whence | F |
| Deep draughted wines of memory will flow | K |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | L |
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| The Fleece | F |
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| O shadowy fleece that falls and curls upon those bare | A |
| Lithe shoulders O rich perfume of forgetfulness | F |
| O ecstasy To loose upon the midnight air | A |
| The memories asleep in this tumultuous hair | A |
| I long to rake it in my fingers tress by tress | F |
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| Asia the languorous the burning solitude | C |
| Of Africa a whole world distant all but dead | C |
| Survives in thy profundities O odorous wood | C |
| My soul as other souls put forth on the deep flood | C |
| Of music sails away upon thy scent instead | C |
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| There where the sap of life mounts hot in man and tree | A |
| And lush desire untamed swoons in the torrid zone | G |
| Undulant tresses wild strong waves oh carry me | A |
| Dream like a dazzling sun from out this ebony sea | A |
| Rises and sails and banks of rowers propel me on | G |
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| All the confusion all the mingled colors cries | F |
| Smells of a busy port upon my senses beat | C |
| Where smoothly on the golden streak d ripples flies | F |
| The barque its arms outspread to gather in the skies | F |
| Against whose glory trembles the unabating heat | C |
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| In this black ocean where the primal ocean roars | F |
| Drunken in love with drunkenness I plunge and drown | G |
| Over my dubious spirit the rolling tide outpours | F |
| Its peace oh fruitful indolence upon thy shores | F |
| Cradled in languor let me drift and lay me down | G |
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| Blue hair darkness made palpable like the big tent | C |
| Of desert sky all glittering with many a star | A |
| Thou coverest me oh I am drugged as with the blent | C |
| Effluvia of a sleeping caravan the scent | C |
| Of coco oil impregnated with musk and tar | A |
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| Fear not Upon this savage mane for ever thy lord | C |
| Will sow pearls sapphires rubies every stone that gleams | F |
| To keep thee faithful Art not thou the sycamored | C |
| Oasis whither my thoughts journey and the dark gourd | C |
| Whereof I drink in long slow draughts the wine of dreams | F |
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| Translated by George Dillon | G |
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| Of Her Hair | A |
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| O fleece billowing on her neck O ecstasy | A |
| O curls O perfume rich with nonchalance O rare | A |
| Tonight to fill the alcove's warm obscurity | A |
| To make that hair evoke each dormant memory | A |
| I long to wave it like a kerchief in the air | A |
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| Africa smoldering and Asia languorous | A |
| A whole far distant world absent and almost spent | C |
| Dwells in your forest depths mystic and odorous | A |
| As others lose themselves in the harmonious | A |
| So love my heart floats lost upon your haunting scent | C |
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| I shall go where both man and tree albeit strong | B |
| Swoon deep beneath the rays of sunlight's blazing fires | A |
| Thick tresses be the waves to bear my dreams along | B |
| Ebony sea your dazzling dream contains a throng | B |
| Of sails of wafts of oarsmen and of masts like spires | A |
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| A noisy harbor where my thirsty soul may drain | G |
| Hues sounds and fragrances in draughts heavy and sweet | C |
| Where vessels gliding down a moir and gold sea lane | G |
| Open their vast arms wide to clutch at the domain | G |
| Of a pure sky a | I |
Charles Baudelaire
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