Obsession Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA ABAC ADD AAA D AAEA FGAA ADA AAH C D IAIA AJAK AAC AAC L| Grands bois vous m'effrayez comme des cath drales | A |
| Vous hurlez comme l'orgue et dans nos coeurs maudits | A |
| Chambres d' ternel deuil o vibrent de vieux r les | A |
| R pondent les chos de vos De profundis | A |
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| Je te hais Oc an tes bonds et tes tumultes | A |
| Mon esprit les retrouve en lui ce rire amer | B |
| De l'homme vaincu plein de sanglots et d'insultes | A |
| Je l'entends dans le rire norme de la mer | C |
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| Comme tu me plairais nuit sans ces toiles | A |
| Dont la lumi re parle un langage connu | D |
| Car je cherche le vide et le noir et le nu | D |
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| Mais les t n bres sont elles m mes des toiles | A |
| O vivent jaillissant de mon oeil par milliers | A |
| Des tres disparus aux regards familiers | A |
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| Obsession | D |
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| Great woods you frighten me like cathedrals | A |
| You roar like the organ and in our cursed hearts | A |
| Rooms of endless mourning where old death rattles sound | E |
| Respond the echoes of your De profundis | A |
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| I hate you Ocean your bounding and your tumult | F |
| My mind finds them within itself that bitter laugh | G |
| Of the vanquished man full of sobs and insults | A |
| I hear it in the immense laughter of the sea | A |
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| How I would like you Night without those stars | A |
| Whose light speaks a language I know | D |
| For I seek emptiness darkness and nudity | A |
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| But the darkness is itself a canvas | A |
| Upon which live springing from my eyes by thousands | A |
| Beings with understanding looks who have vanished | H |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | C |
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| Obsession | D |
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| You forests like cathedrals are my dread | I |
| You roar like organs Our curst hearts like cells | A |
| Where death forever rattles on the bed | I |
| Echo your de Profundis as it swells | A |
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| My spirit hates you Ocean sees and loathes | A |
| Its tumults in your own Of men defeated | J |
| The bitter laugh that's full of sobs and oaths | A |
| Is in your own tremendously repeated | K |
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| How you would please me Night without your stars | A |
| Which speak a foreign dialect that jars | A |
| On one who seeks the void the black the bare | C |
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| Yet even your darkest shade a canvas forms | A |
| Whereon my eye must multiply in swarms | A |
| Familiar looks of shapes no longer there | C |
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| Translation by Roy Campbell | L |
Charles Baudelaire
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