Parfum Exotique (exotic Perfume) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA BBA BAB C DEFA ABGG BHF FFF G C FGGF FGGF IIF GGF J C FDDFFDDF IIKGGK L L AEEA AEEA GGL LLL F C LEFA FMJG NFF FFA G| Quand les deux yeux ferm s en un soir chaud d'automne | A |
| Je respire l'odeur de ton sein chaleureux | B |
| Je vois se d rouler des rivages heureux | B |
| Qu' blouissent les feux d'un soleil monotone | A |
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| Une le paresseuse o la nature donne | A |
| Des arbres singuliers et des fruits savoureux | B |
| Des hommes dont le corps est mince et vigoureux | B |
| Et des femmes dont l'oeil par sa franchise tonne | A |
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| Guid par ton odeur vers de charmants climats | B |
| Je vois un port rempli de voiles et de m ts | B |
| Encor tout fatigu s par la vague marine | A |
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| Pendant que le parfum des verts tamariniers | B |
| Qui circule dans l'air et m'enfle la narine | A |
| Se m le dans mon me au chant des mariniers | B |
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| Exotic Perfume | C |
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| When with both my eyes closed on a hot autumn night | D |
| I inhale the fragrance of your warm breast | E |
| I see happy shores spread out before me | F |
| On which shines a dazzling and monotonous sun | A |
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| A lazy isle to which nature has given | A |
| Singular trees savory fruits | B |
| Men with bodies vigorous and slender | G |
| And women in whose eyes shines a startling candor | G |
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| Guided by your fragrance to these charming countries | B |
| I see a port filled with sails and rigging | H |
| Still utterly wearied by the waves of the sea | F |
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| While the perfume of the green tamarinds | F |
| That permeates the air and elates my nostrils | F |
| Is mingled in my soul with the sailors' chanteys | F |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | G |
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| Exotic Perfume | C |
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| When I with eyes shut on warm autumn eves | F |
| The fragrance of your warmer breast respire | G |
| I see a country bathed in solar fire | G |
| Whose happy shores its lustre never leaves | F |
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| An isle of indolence where nature raises | F |
| Singular trees and fruits both sweet and tender | G |
| Where men have bodies vigorous and slender | G |
| And women's eyes a candour that amazes | F |
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| Led by your scent to fairer climes at last | I |
| I see a port of sails where every mast | I |
| Seems weary of the labours of its cruise | F |
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| While scents of tamarind blown here and there | G |
| Swelling my nostrils as they rinse the air | G |
| Are mingled with the chanties of the crews | F |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | J |
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| Exotic Perfume | C |
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| On autumn nights eyes closed when sensuous | F |
| I breathe the scent of your warm breasts my sight | D |
| Is peopled by far shores happy and bright | D |
| Under a sun warm and monotonous | F |
| A lazy isle which nature generous | F |
| Stocks with weird trees and fruits of strange delight | D |
| Men with lithe bodies powerful but slight | D |
| Women whose candid eyes flash luminous | F |
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| Urged by your scent to such charmed lands at last | I |
| I see a port with many a sail and mast | I |
| Still weary from the ocean's frenzied roll | K |
| While the green tamarinds exhale their savor | G |
| To please my nostrils with a dulcet flavor | G |
| Mingled with sailor chanteys in my soul | K |
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| Translation by Jacques LeClercq | L |
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| Parfum exotique | L |
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| when with closed eyes I drink the halcyon | A |
| warm autumn evening on thy burning breast | E |
| I see unfurl the atolls of the blest | E |
| blazing in flame from an unchanging sun | A |
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| an isle of rest where Nature's benison | A |
| breeds trees unique and fruits of savoury zest | E |
| tall men who stride in vigour manifest | E |
| women whose eyes of candour startle one | A |
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| I drift thy fragrance bearing me afar | G |
| into a port where every sail and spar | G |
| sway wearied by the sea's beleaguering | L |
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| where tamarinds bloom and draughts of perfume winging | L |
| through widening nostrils blend in me to bring | L |
| the wind blown chanteys mariners are singing | L |
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| TRanslated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | F |
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| The Exotic Perfume | C |
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| When with both eyes shut on a close autumn evening | L |
| I breathe the perfume of your heated breast | E |
| I see happy shores unfold themselves | F |
| Dazzling in the flames of a monotonous sun | A |
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| A lay island where Nature bestows | F |
| Peculiar trees and savory fruit | M |
| Men with bodies slim and virile | J |
| Women with eyes of astonishing candor | G |
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| Led by your odor to climates of charm | N |
| I see a harbor full of sails and masts | F |
| Still tired by the waves of the sea | F |
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| Whilst the perfume of green tamarind trees | F |
| Circles the air and fills my nostrils | F |
| Meets in my soul with the song of the seamen | A |
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| Translated by Geoffrey Wagner | G |
Charles Baudelaire
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