Réversibilité (reversability) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAA BCCBB ADDAA ADDDA ADDAA D EAAAE DCAAD FADDF ADDBA DGHAD F D EIEIE DCDCD ACACA JBJBJ DFDFD C B KFFKK DAADD ADDAA ALL A DFDFD B D MAAMM DCCDD FAAFF ABBAA AFFAA N| Ange plein de gaiet connaissez vous l'angoisse | A |
| La honte les remords les sanglots les ennuis | A |
| Et les vagues terreurs de ces affreuses nuits | A |
| Qui compriment le coeur comme un papier qu'on froisse | A |
| Ange plein de gaiet connaissez vous l'angoisse | A |
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| Ange plein de bont connaissez vous la haine | B |
| Les poings crisp s dans l'ombre et les larmes de fiel | C |
| Quand la Vengeance bat son infernal rappel | C |
| Et de nos facult s se fait le capitaine | B |
| Ange plein de bont connaissez vous la haine | B |
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| Ange plein de sant connaissez vous les Fi vres | A |
| Qui le long des grands murs de l'hospice blafard | D |
| Comme des exil s s'en vont d'un pied tra nard | D |
| Cherchant le soleil rare et remuant les l vres | A |
| Ange plein de sant connaissez vous les Fi vres | A |
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| Ange plein de beaut connaissez vous les rides | A |
| Et la peur de vieillir et ce hideux tourment | D |
| De lire la secr te horreur du d vouement | D |
| Dans des yeux o longtemps burent nos yeux avide | D |
| Ange plein de beaut connaissez vous les rides | A |
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| Ange plein de bonheur de joie et de lumi res | A |
| David mourant aurait demand la sant | D |
| Aux manations de ton corps enchant | D |
| Mais de toi je n'implore ange que tes pri res | A |
| Ange plein de bonheur de joie et de lumi res | A |
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| Reversibility | D |
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| Angel full of gaiety do you know anguish | E |
| Shame remorse sobs vexations | A |
| And the vague terrors of those frightful nights | A |
| That compress the heart like a paper one crumples | A |
| Angel full of gaiety do you know anguish | E |
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| Angel full of kindness do you know hatred | D |
| The clenched fists in the darkness and the tears of gall | C |
| When Vengeance beats out his hellish call to arms | A |
| And makes himself the captain of our faculties | A |
| Angel full of kindness do you know hatred | D |
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| Angel full of health do you know Fever | F |
| Walking like an exile moving with dragging steps | A |
| Along the high wan walls of the charity ward | D |
| And with muttering lips seeking the rare sunlight | D |
| Angel full of health do you know Fever | F |
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| Angel full of beauty do you know wrinkles | A |
| The fear of growing old and the hideous torment | D |
| Of reading in the eyes of her he once adored | D |
| Horror at seeing love turning to devotion | B |
| Angel full of beauty do you know wrinkles | A |
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| Angel full of happiness of joy and of light | D |
| David on his death bed would have appealed for health | G |
| To the emanations of your enchanted flesh | H |
| But of you angel I beg only prayers | A |
| Angel full of happiness of joy and of light | D |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | F |
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| Reversibility | D |
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| Angel of gaiety have you known anguish | E |
| Shame and remorse tears boredom and dismay | I |
| Vague horrors of the nights in which we languish | E |
| Which crumple hearts like papers thrown away | I |
| Angel of gaiety have you known anguish | E |
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| Angel of kindness have you met with hate | D |
| Fists clenched in gloom eyes running tears of gall | C |
| When Vengeance beats his drum to subjugate | D |
| Our faculties the captain of them all | C |
| Angel of kindness have you met with hate | D |
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| Angel of health have you beheld the Fevers | A |
| Across pale walls of wards they limp and stumble | C |
| Like exiles wan with agues chills and shivers | A |
| Seeking the scanty sun with lips that mumble | C |
| Angel of health have you beheld the Fevers | A |
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| Angel of beauty do you know Old Age | J |
| The fear of wrinkles and the dire emotion | B |
| In eyes we've pierced too long as on a page | J |
| To read the secret horror of devotion | B |
| Angel of beauty do you know Old Age | J |
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| Angel of goodness radiance and delight | D |
| The dying David would have begged to share | F |
| The emanations of your body bright | D |
| But all I wish to ask of you is prayer | F |
| Angel of goodness radiance and delight | D |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | C |
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| The Angelic One | B |
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| Spirit of happiness hast thou heard tell of woe | K |
| Hast thou heard tell of anguish and remorse and care | F |
| Of those long nights when in the black fist of Despair | F |
| The heart is crumpled up like paper Dost thou know | K |
| Spirit of happiness Hast thou heard tell of woe | K |
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| Spirit of kindliness hast thou heard tell of hate | D |
| The clenched hands in the darkness the silent bitter tears | A |
| With Vengeance beating in the arteries of our ears | A |
| Its dogged tom tom irresistible as fate | D |
| Spirit of kindliness hast thou heard tell of hate | D |
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| Spirit of health hast thou heard whisper of Disease | A |
| Whose pallid children in the courtyard gray with soot | D |
| Of the bleak hospital go dragging a slow foot | D |
| To find a patch of sunlight Host thou heard of these | A |
| Spirit of health hast thou heard whisper of Disease | A |
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| Spirit of beauty hast thou heard of ugliness | A |
| Of the long secret torment of growing old above | L |
| All else the pain of reading in the eyes we love | L |
| A wordless horror even while the lips say 'yes ' | - |
| Spirit of beauty hast thou heard of ugliness | A |
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| Spirit of joy spirit of beauty spirit of light | D |
| David grown old would have thought nothing to implore | F |
| Thy healing touch thy warm young presence in the night | D |
| But spirit I only ask of thee thy prayers no more | F |
| Spirit of joy spirit of beauty spirit of light | D |
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| Translated by George Dillon | B |
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| Reversibility | D |
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| Angel teeming with gaiety do you know grief | M |
| Anguish remorse and shame their ravages and blights | A |
| And the vague terrors of those panic stricken nights | A |
| Which squeeze the heartstrings dry as a sere crumpled leaf | M |
| Angel teeming with gaiety do you know grief | M |
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| Angel teeming with kindliness do you know hate | D |
| Fists tight clenched in the shadows scalding tears of gall | C |
| When Vengeance roars with his infernal battle call | C |
| Making himself the captain of our acts and fate | D |
| Angel teeming with kindliness do you know hate | D |
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| Angel teeming with healthfulness do you know Fever | F |
| Who like an exile lopes with dragging step towards | A |
| The wan stark walls of hospitals and public wards | A |
| Mumbling seeking rare sunlight for a brace or lever | F |
| Angel teeming with healthfulness do you know Fever | F |
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| Angel teeming with loveliness do you know wrinkles | A |
| The fear of growing old and like a poisoned potion | B |
| The dread of seeing love turn into fond devotion | B |
| In eyes adored once blue and pure as periwinkles | A |
| Angel teeming with loveliness do you know wrinkles | A |
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| Angel teeming with happy blithe luminous airs | A |
| David upon his deathbed would have craved for power | F |
| From the suave emanations of your body's flower | F |
| But I angel beseech of you only your prayers | A |
| Angel teeming with happy blithe luminous airs | A |
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| Translated by Jacques LeClercq | N |
Charles Baudelaire
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