La Géante (the Giantess) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante	A
Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux	B
J'eusse aim vivre aupr s d'une jeune g ante	A
Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux	B
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J'eusse aim voir son corps fleurir avec son me	A
Et grandir librement dans ses terribles jeux	B
Deviner si son coeur couve une sombre flamme	A
Aux humides brouillards qui nagent dans ses yeux	B
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Parcourir loisir ses magnifiques formes	B
Ramper sur le versant de ses genoux normes	B
Et parfois en t quand les soleils malsains	B
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Lasse la font s' tendre travers la campagne	C
Dormir nonchalamment l'ombre de ses seins	B
Comme un hameau paisible au pied d'une montagne	C
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The Giantess	B
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At the time when Nature with a lusty spirit	A
Was conceiving monstrous children each day	A
I should have liked to live near a young giantess	B
Like a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen	C
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I should have liked to see her soul and body thrive	D
And grow without restraint in her terrible games	B
To divine by the mist swimming within her eyes	B
If her heart harbored a smoldering flame	A
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To explore leisurely her magnificent form	A
To crawl upon the slopes of her enormous knees	B
And sometimes in summer when the unhealthy sun	C
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Makes her stretch out weary across the countryside	A
To sleep nonchalantly in the shade of her breasts	B
Like a peaceful hamlet below a mountainside	A
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Translated by William Aggeler	E
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The Giantess	B
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Of old when Nature in her verve defiant	A
Conceived each day some birth of monstrous mien	C
I would have lived near some young female giant	A
Like a voluptuous cat beside a queen	C
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To see her body flowering with her soul	F
Freely develop in her mighty games	B
And in the mists that through her gaze would roll	F
Guess that her heart was hatching sombre flames	B
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To roam her mighty contours as I please	B
Ramp on the cliff of her tremendous knees	B
And in the solstice when the suns that kill	G
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Make her stretch out across the land and rest	A
To sleep beneath the shadow of her breast	A
Like a hushed village underneath a hill	G
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Translated by Roy Campbell	H
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The Giantess	B
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In times of old when Nature in her glad excess	B
Brought forth such living marvels as no more are seen	C
I should have loved to dwell with a young giantess	B
Like a voluptuous cat about the feet of a queen	C
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To run and laugh beside her in her terrible games	B
And see her grow each day to a more fearful size	B
And see the flowering of her soul and the first flames	B
Of passionate longing in the misty depths of her eyes	B
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To scale the slopes of her huge knees explore at will	G
The hollows and the heights of her and when oppressed	A
By the long afternoons of summer cloudless and still	G
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She would stretch out across the countryside to rest	A
I should have loved to sleep in the shadow of her breast	A
Quietly as a village nestling under a hill	G
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Translated by George Dillon	C
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The Giantess	B
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In times when Nature lusty to excess	B
Bred monstrous children would that I had been	C
Living beside a youthful giantess	B
Like a voluptuous cat beside a queen	C
To see her soul and body gain full size	B
Blossoming freely in her fearsome games	B
And by the damp mists swimming in her eyes	B
To watch her heart nursing what somber flames	B
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To roam her mighty form at my sweet ease	B
To crawl along the slopes of her vast knees	B
And summers when the sun's unhealthy heats	B
Made her sprawl tired across the countryside	A
To sleep at leisure shaded by her teats	B
Like a calm hamlet by the mountainside	A
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	I
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Giantess	B
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When Nature once in lustful hot undress	B
Conceived gargantuan offspring then would I	J
Have loved to live near a young giantess	B
Like a voluptuous cat at a queen's feet	A
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To see her body flower with her desire	E
And freely spread out in its dreadful play	A
Guess if her heart concealed some heavy fire	E
Whose humid smokes would swim upon her eye	J
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To feel at leisure her stupendous shapes	B
Crawl on the cliffs of her enormous knees	B
And when in summer the unhealthy suns	B
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Have stretched her out across the plains fatigued	A
Sleep in the shadows of her breasts at ease	B
Like a small hamlet at a mountain's base	B
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Translated by Karl Shapiro	E
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La G ante	A
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From the time when Nature in her furious fancy	A
Conceived each day monstrosities obscene	C
I had loved to live near a young Giantess of Necromancy	A
Like a voluptuous cat before the knees of a Queen	C
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I had loved to see her body mix with her Soul's shame	A
And greaten in these terrible games of Vice	B
And to divine if in her heart brooded a somber flame	A
Before the moist sea mists which swarm in her great eyes	B
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To wander over her huge forms nature deforms us	B
And to crawl over the slopes of her knees enormous	B
And in summer when the unwholesome suns from the West's	B
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Winds weary made her slumber hard by a fountain	C
To sleep listlessly in the shadow of her superb breasts	B
Like an hamlet that slumbers at the foot of a mountain	C
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Translated by Arthur Symons	B
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The Giantess	B
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In those times when Nature in powerful zest	A
Conceived each day monstrous children	C
I would have loved to live near a young giantess	B
A voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen	C
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I would have loved to see her body flower with her soul	F
To grow up freely in her prodigious play	A
To find if her heart bred some dark flame	A
Amongst the humid mists swimming in her eyes	B
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To run leisurely over her marvelous lines	B
To creep along the slopes of her enormous knees	B
And sometimes in summer when impure suns	B
	-
Made her wearily stretch out across the countryside	A
To sleep carelessly in the shadow of her breasts	B
Like a peaceful village at the foot of a mountain	C
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Translated by Geoffrey Wagner	E

Charles Baudelaire

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