La Serpent Qui Danse (the Dancing Serpent) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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La Serpent Qui Danse (the Dancing Serpent) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Que j'aime voir ch re indolente	A
De ton corps si beau	B
Comme une toffe vacillante	A
Miroiter la peau	C
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Sur ta chevelure profonde	A
Aux cres parfums	D
Mer odorante et vagabonde	A
Aux flots bleus et bruns	E
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Comme un navire qui s' veille	F
Au vent du matin	G
Mon me r veuse appareille	F
Pour un ciel lointain	G
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Tes yeux o rien ne se r v le	F
De doux ni d'amer	H
Sont deux bijoux froids o se m le	F
L'or avec le fer	H
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te voir marcher en cadence	I
Belle d'abandon	G
On dirait un serpent qui danse	I
Au bout d'un b ton	G
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Sous le fardeau de ta paresse	I
Ta t te d'enfant	A
Se balance avec la mollesse	I
D'un jeune l phant	A
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Et ton corps se penche et s'allonge	J
Comme un fin vaisseau	I
Qui roule bord sur bord et plonge	J
Ses vergues dans l'eau	F
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Comme un flot grossi par la fonte	A
Des glaciers grondants	I
Quand l'eau de ta bouche remonte	A
Au bord de tes dents	I
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Je crois boire un vin de Boh me	K
Amer et vainqueur	H
Un ciel liquide qui pars me	K
D' toiles mon coeur	H
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The Dancing Serpent	A
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Indolent darling how I love	L
To see the skin	G
Of your body so beautiful	F
Shimmer like silk	M
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Upon your heavy head of hair	H
With its acrid scents	I
Adventurous odorant sea	K
With blue and brown waves	I
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Like a vessel that awakens	I
To the morning wind	A
My dreamy soul sets sail	F
For a distant sky	N
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Your eyes where nothing is revealed	A
Of bitter or sweet	A
Are two cold jewels where are mingled	A
Iron and gold	A
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To see you walking in cadence	I
With fine abandon	G
One would say a snake which dances	I
On the end of a staff	O
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Under the weight of indolence	I
Your child like head sways	I
Gently to and fro like the head	A
Of a young elephant	A
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And your body stretches and leans	I
Like a slender ship	C
That rolls from side to side and dips	I
Its yards in the sea	I
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Like a stream swollen by the thaw	P
Of rumbling glaciers	I
When the water of your mouth rises	I
To the edge of your teeth	Q
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It seems I drink Bohemian wine	G
Bitter and conquering	R
A liquid sky that scatters	I
Stars in my heart	A
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Translated by William Aggeler	H
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The Snake that Dances	I
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I love to watch while you are lazing	R
Your skin It iridesces	I
Like silk or satin smoothly glazing	R
The light that it caresses	I
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Under your tresses dark and deep	C
Where acrid perfumes drown	G
A fragrant sea whose breakers sweep	C
In mazes blue or brown	G
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My soul a ship to the attraction	G
Of breezes that bedizen	G
Its swelling canvas clears for action	G
And seeks a far horizon	G
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Your eyes where nothing can be seen	G
Either of sweet or bitter	H
But gold and iron mix their sheen	G
Seem frosty gems that glitter	H
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To see you rhythmically advancing	R
Seems to my fancy fond	A
As if it were a serpent dancing	R
Waved by the charmer's wand	A
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Under the languorous moods that weigh it	A
Your childish head bows down	G
Like a young elephant's you sway it	A
With motions soft as down	G
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Your body leans upon the hips	I
Like a fine ship that Iaves	I
Its hull from side to side and dips	I
Its yards into the waves	I
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When as by glaciers ground the spate	A
Swells hissing from beneath	Q
The water of your mouth elate	A
Rises between your teeth	Q
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It seems some old Bohemian vintage	J
Triumphant fierce and tart	A
A liquid heaven that showers a mintage	J
Of stars across my heart	A
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Translated by Roy Campbell	F
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Dancing Serpent	A
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Indolent love with what delight	A
I watch the tawny flesh	S
Of your sweet body shimmer bright	A
As a bright silken mesh	S
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On your thick tresses love you wear	H
Sharp perfumes for a crown	G
A venturesome sweet sea your hair	H
With billows blue and brown	G
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Your eyes never betray by sign	G
What grief or joy they hold	A
They are cold jewels that combine	G
Strong iron and rare gold	A
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Even as a vessel that awakes	I
When morning breezes rise	I
So my dream laden spirit takes	I
Off for strange distant skies	I
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Your sinuous cadenced walk enhancing	R
Your slim proud gait a frond	A
Swaying you are or a snake dancing	R
Atop a fakir's wand	A
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Under a laziness like lead	A
Your childlike head aslant	A
Sways soft and gentle as the head	A
Of a young elephant	A
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Your body like a slender ship	C
In tense or bowing motion	G
Rolls slow from side to side to dip	C
Its yards deep in the ocean	G
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Ice thawed by currents from the south	T
Swell the swift streams beneath	Q
So when the water of your mouth	T
Rises against your teeth	Q
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I seem to drink Bohemian wine	G
Victorious and tart	A
A liquid sky that strews benign	G
Stars in my peaceful heart	A
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	R
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The Dancing Serpent	A
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How I love to watch dear indolent creature	H
The skin of your so	I
Beautiful body glisten like some	U
Quivering material	F
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On your deep coiffure	H
Bitter scented	A
Scented restless sea	I
With the blue and brown waves	I
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Like a ship waking	R
To the wind of morning	R
My dreamy soul prepares	I
For skies far away	V
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Your eyes where nothing is revealed	A
Of sweet or sour	H
Are two cold gems whose gold	A
Is mixed with iron	G
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Seeing your harmonious walk	R
Abandoned beauty	I
One would say a snake was dancing	R
At the end of a stick	R
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Under the weight of your sloth	W
Your infant head	A
Is balanced with the indolence	I
Of a young elephant	A
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And your body bends and stretches	I
Like a delicate ship	C
Pitching from side to side and sinking	R
Its spars in the water	H
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Like a wave swelled by the melting	R
Of a groaning glacier	H
When your saliva rises	I
To the edges of your teeth	Q
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I feel I drink some Bohemian wine	G
Bitter victor	H
A liquid sky that scatters	I
Stars in my heart	A
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Translated by Geoffrey Wagner	H