Les Bijoux (the Jewels) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Les Bijoux (the Jewels) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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La tr s ch re tait nue et connaissant mon coeur	A
Elle n'avait gard que ses bijoux sonores	B
Dont le riche attirail lui donnait l'air vainqueur	A
Qu'ont dans leurs jours heureux les esclaves des Mores	B
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Quand il jette en dansant son bruit vif et moqueur	A
Ce monde rayonnant de m tal et de pierre	A
Me ravit en extase et j'aime la fureur	A
Les choses o le son se m le la lumi re	A
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Elle tait donc couch e et se laissait aimer	A
Et du haut du divan elle souriait d'aise	B
mon amour profond et doux comme la mer	A
Qui vers elle montait comme vers sa falaise	B
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Les yeux fix s sur moi comme un tigre dompt	C
D'un air vague et r veur elle essayait des poses	B
Et la candeur unie la lubricit	C
Donnait un charme neuf ses m tamorphoses	B
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Et son bras et sa jambe et sa cuisse et ses reins	B
Polis comme de l'huile onduleux comme un cygne	D
Passaient devant mes yeux clairvoyants et sereins	B
Et son ventre et ses seins ces grappes de ma vigne	D
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S'avan aient plus c lins que les Anges du mal	E
Pour troubler le repos o mon me tait mise	B
Et pour la d ranger du rocher de cristal	F
O calme et solitaire elle s' tait assise	B
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Je croyais voir unis par un nouveau dessin	D
Les hanches de l'Antiope au buste d'un imberbe	G
Tant sa taille faisait ressortir son bassin	D
Sur ce teint fauve et brun le fard tait superbe	G
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Et la lampe s' tant r sign e mourir	A
Comme le foyer seul illuminait la chambre	A
Chaque fois qu'il poussait un flamboyant soupir	A
Il inondait de sang cette peau couleur d'ambre	A
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The Jewels	B
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My darling was naked and knowing my heart well	H
She was wearing only her sonorous jewels	B
Whose opulent display made her look triumphant	C
Like Moorish concubines on their fortunate days	B
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When it dances and flings its lively mocking sound	C
This radiant world of metal and of gems	B
Transports me with delight I passionately love	I
All things in which sound is mingled with light	C
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She had lain down and let herself be loved	C
From the top of the couch she smiled contentedly	J
Upon my love deep and gentle as the sea	J
Which rose toward her as toward a cliff	K
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Her eyes fixed upon me like a tamed tigress	J
With a vague dreamy air she was trying poses	J
And by blending candor with lechery	A
Her metamorphoses took on a novel charm	L
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And her arm and her leg and her thigh and her loins	J
Shiny as oil sinuous as a swan	D
Passed in front of my eyes clear sighted and serene	D
And her belly her breasts grapes of my vine	D
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Advanced more cajoling than angels of evil	F
To trouble the quiet that had possessed my soul	M
To dislodge her from the crag of crystal	F
Where calm and alone she had taken her seat	C
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I thought I saw blended in a novel design	D
Antiope's haunches and the breast of a boy	G
Her waist set off so well the fullness of her hips	J
On that tawny brown skin the rouge stood out superb	G
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And when at last the lamp allowed itself to die	C
Since the fire alone lighted the room	N
Each time that it uttered a flaming sigh	C
It drenched with blood that amber colored skin	D
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Translated by William Aggeler	A
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The Jewels	J
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My well beloved was stripped Knowing my whim	O
She wore her tinkling gems but naught besides	J
And showed such pride as while her luck betides	J
A sultan's favoured slave may show to him	O
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When it lets off its lively crackling sound	C
This blazing blend of metal crossed with stone	D
Gives me an ecstasy I've only known	D
Where league of sound and lustre can be found	C
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She let herself be loved then drowsy eyed	C
Smiled down from her high couch in languid ease	J
My love was deep and gentle as the seas	J
And rose to her as to a cliff the tide	C
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My own approval of each dreamy pose	J
Like a tarned tiger cunningly she sighted	C
And candour with lubricity united	C
Gave piquancy to every one she chose	J
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Her limbs and hips burnished with changing lustres	J
Before my eyes clairvoyant and serene	D
Swarmed themselves undulating in their sheen	D
Her breasts and belly of my vine the clusters	J
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Like evil angels rose my fancy twitting	P
To kill the peace which over me she'd thrown	D
And to disturb her from the crystal throne	D
Where calm and solitary she was sitting	P
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So swerved her pelvis that in one design	D
Antiope's white rump it seemed to graft	C
To a boy's torso merging fore and aft	C
The talc on her brown tan seemed half divine	D
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The lamp resigned its dying flame Within	D
The hearth alone lit up the darkened air	A
And every time it sighed a crimson flare	A
It drowned in blood that amber coloured skin	D
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Translated by Roy Campbell	F
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The Jewels	J
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The lovely one was naked and knowing well my prayer	A
She wore her loud bright armory of jewels They	A
Evoked in her the savage and victorious air	A
Of Moorish concubines upon a holiday	A
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When it gives forth being shaken its gay mocking noise	J
This world of metal and of stone aflare in the night	C
Excites me monstrously for chiefest of my joys	J
Is the luxurious commingling of sound and light	C
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Relaxed among the pillows she looked down at me	J
And let herself be gazed upon at leisure as if	K
Lulled by my wordless adoration like the sea	J
Washing perpetually about the foot of a cliff	K
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Slowly regarding me like a trained leopardess	J
She slouched into successive poses A certain ease	J
A certain candor coupled with lasciviousness	J
Lent a new charm to the old metamorphoses	J
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The whole lithe harmony of loins hips buttocks thighs	J
Tawny and sleek and undulant as the neck of a swan	D
Began to move hypnotically before my eyes	J
And her large breasts those fruits I have grown lean upon	D
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I saw float toward me tempting as the angels of hell	H
To win my soul in thralldom to their dark caprice	J
Once more and lure it down from the high citadel	H
Where calm and solitary it thought to have found peace	J
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She stretched and reared and made herself all belly In truth	Q
It was as if some playful artist had joined the stout	C
Hips of Antiope to the torso of a youth	Q
The room grew dark the lamp having flickered and gone out	C
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And now the whispering fire that had begun to die	C
Falling in lucent embers was all the light therein	D
And when it heaved at moments a flamboyant sigh	C
It inundated as with blood her amber skin	D
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Translated by George Dillon	D
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The Jewels	J
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Naked was my dark love and knowing my heart	C
Adorned in but her most sonorous gems	J
Their high pomp decked her with the conquering art	C
Of Moorish slave girls crowned with diadems	J
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Dancing for me with lively mocking sound	C
This world of stone and metal brittle and bright	C
Fills me with rapture who have always found	C
Excess of joy where hue and tone unite	C
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Naked she lay suffered love pleasurably	H
To mould her smiled on my desire as if	K
Profound and gentle as the rising sea	J
It rode the tide toward its appointed cliff	K
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A tiger tamed her eyes on mine intent	C
On lust she sought all strange ways to please	J
Her air half candid half lascivious lent	C
A new charm to her metamorphoses	J
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In turn her arms and limbs her veins her thighs	J
Polished as nard undulant as a swan	D
Passed under my serene clairvoyant eyes	J
As belly and breasts grapes of my vine moved on	D
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Skilled in more spells than evil angels muster	A
To break the solace which possessed my heart	C
Smashing the crystal rock upon whose luster	A
My quietude sat on its own apart	C
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Her waist awrithe her belly enormously	J
Out thrust formed strange designs unknown to us	J
As if the haunches of Antiope	R
Flowed from a body not yet Ephebus	J
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Slowly the lamplight sank resigned to die	C
Firelight pierced darkness stud on glowing stud	C
Each time it heaved a sharply flaming sigh	C
It steeped her amber flesh in pools of blood	C
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	P
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The Jewels	J
	-
My well beloved was stripped Knowing my whim	O
She wore her tinkling gems but naught besides	J
And showed such pride as while her luck betides	J
A sultan's favoured slave may show to him	O
	-
When it lets off its lively crackling sound	C
This blazing blend of metal crossed with sto	C