Le Revenant (the Ghost) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCBB BBB DDE B DFGB GCHA DBB EED E B BBBB BBHH GGC IIC J B DDKK CCLL DDE BBE C B DDBBCCD DDEDDE M

Comme les anges l'oeil fauveA
Je reviendrai dans ton alc veA
Et vers toi glisserai sans bruitB
Avec les ombres de la nuitB
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Et je te donnerai ma bruneC
Des baisers froids comme la luneC
Et des caresses de serpentB
Autour d'une fosse rampantB
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Quand viendra le matin livideB
Tu trouveras ma place videB
O jusqu'au soir il fera froidB
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Comme d'autres par la tendresseD
Sur ta vie et sur ta jeunesseD
Moi je veux r gner par l'effroiE
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The GhostB
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Like angels with wild beast's eyesD
I shall return to your bedroomF
And silently glide toward youG
With the shadows of the nightB
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And dark beauty I shall give youG
Kisses cold as the moonC
And the caresses of a snakeH
That crawls around a graveA
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When the livid morning comesD
You'll find my place emptyB
And it will be cold there till nightB
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I wish to hold sway overE
Your life and youth by fearE
As others do by tendernessD
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Translated by William AggelerE
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The GhostB
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Like angels fierce and tawny eyedB
Back to your chamber I will glideB
And noiselessly into your sightB
Steal with the shadows of the nightB
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And I will bring you brown delightB
Kisses as cold as lunar nightB
And the caresses of a snakeH
Revolving in a grave At breakH
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Of morning in its livid hueG
You'd find I had bequeathed to youG
An empty place as cold as stoneC
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Others by tenderness and ruthI
Would reign over your life and youthI
But I would rule by fear aloneC
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Translated by Roy CampbellJ
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The RevenantB
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Like angels with bright savage eyesD
I will come treading phantom wiseD
Hither where thou art wont to sleepK
Amid the shadows hollow and deepK
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And I will give thee my dark oneC
Kisses as icy as the moonC
Caresses as of snakes that crawlL
In circles round a cistern's wallL
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When morning shows its livid faceD
There will be no one in my placeD
And a strange cold will settle hereE
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Others not knowing what thou artB
May think to reign upon thy heartB
With tenderness I trust to fearE
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Translated by George DillonC
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The GhostB
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Like angels that have monster eyesD
Over your bedside I shall riseD
Gliding towards you silentlyB
Across night's black immensityB
O darksome beauty you shall swoonC
At kisses colder than the moonC
And fondlings like a snake's who coils Sinuous round the grave he soilsD
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When livid morning breaks apaceD
You shall find but an empty placeD
Cold until night and bleak and drearE
As others do by tendernessD
So would I rule your youthfulnessD
By harsh immensities of fearE
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Translated by Jacques LeClercqM

Charles Baudelaire



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