Letter To Sainte-beuve Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFFGGFHIJGGKLMN OOPPQQGGRRSSTUSUSUSS VVUUWWGGXYVVVVUZVVA2 B2C2C2GGSSSSVVUUVVVG D2W| On the old oak benches more shiny and polished | A |
| than links of a chain that were each day burnished | A |
| rubbed by our human flesh we still un bearded | B |
| trailed our ennui hunched round shouldered | C |
| under the four square heaven of solitude | D |
| where a child drinks study s tart ten year brew | E |
| It was in those days outstanding and memorable | F |
| when the teachers forced to loosen our classical | F |
| fetters yet all still hostile to your rhyming | G |
| succumbed to the pressure of our mad duelling | G |
| and allowed a triumphant mutinous pupil | F |
| to make Triboulet howl in Latin at will | H |
| Which of us in those days of pale adolescence | I |
| didn t share the weary torpor of confinement | J |
| eyes lost in the dreary blue of a summer sky | G |
| or the snowfall s whiteness we were dazzled by | G |
| ears pricked eager waiting a pack of hounds | K |
| drinking some book s far echo a riot s sound | L |
| Most of all in summer that melted the leads | M |
| the walls high blackened filled with dread | N |
| with the scorching heat or when autumn haze | O |
| lit the sky with its one monotonous blaze | O |
| and made the screeching falcons fall asleep | P |
| white pigeons terrors in their slender keep | P |
| the season of reverie when the Muse clings | Q |
| through the endless day to some bell that rings | Q |
| when Melancholy at noon when all is drowsing | G |
| at the corridor s end chin in hand dragging | G |
| eyes bluer and darker than Diderot s Nun | R |
| that sad obscene tale known to everyone | R |
| her feet weighed down by premature ennui | S |
| her brow from night s moist languor un free | S |
| and unhealthy evenings then feverish nights | T |
| that make young girls love their bodies outright | U |
| and sterile pleasure gaze in their mirrors to see | S |
| the ripening fruits of their own nubility | U |
| Italian evenings of thoughtless lethargy | S |
| when knowledge of false delights is revealed | U |
| when sombre Venus on her high black balcony | S |
| out of cool censers waves of musk sets free | S |
| In this war of enervating circumstances | V |
| matured by your sonnets prepared by your stanzas | V |
| one evening having sensed the soul of your art | U |
| I transported Amaury s story into my heart | U |
| Every mystical void is but two steps away | W |
| from doubt The potion drop by drop day by day | W |
| filtering through me I drawn to the abyss since I | G |
| was fifteen who swiftly deciphered Ren s sigh | G |
| I parched by some strange thirst for the unknown | X |
| within the smallest of arteries made its home | Y |
| I absorbed it all the perfumes the miasmas | V |
| the long vanished memories sweetest whispers | V |
| the drawn out tangle of phrases their symbols | V |
| the rosaries murmuring in mystical madrigals | V |
| a voluptuous book if ever one was brewed | U |
| Now whether I m deep in some leafy refuge | Z |
| or in the sun of a second hemispheres days | V |
| the eternal swell swaying the ocean waves | V |
| the view of endless horizons always re born | A2 |
| draw my heart to the dream divine once more | B2 |
| be it in heavy languor of burning summer | C2 |
| or shivering idleness of early December | C2 |
| beneath tobacco smoke clouds hiding the ceiling | G |
| through the book s subtle mystery always leafing | G |
| a book so dear to those numb souls whose destiny | S |
| has one and all stamped them with that same malady | S |
| in front of the mirror I ve perfected the cruelty | S |
| of the art that at birth some demon granted me | S |
| art of that pain that creates true voluptuousness | V |
| scratching the wound to draw blood from my distress | V |
| Poet is it an insult or a well turned compliment | U |
| For regarding you I m like a lover to all intent | U |
| faced with a ghost whose gestures are caresses | V |
| with hand eye of unknown charms who blesses | V |
| in order to drain one s strength All loved beings | V |
| are cups of venom one drinks with eyes unseeing | G |
| and the heart that s once transfixed seduced by pain | D2 |
| finds death while still blessing the arrow every day | W |
Charles Baudelaire
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