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'angoisseA
La honte les remords les sanglots les ennuisA
Et les vagues terreurs de ces affreuses nuitsA
Qui compriment le coeur comme un papier qu'on froisseA
Ange plein de gaiet connaissez vous l'angoisseA
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Ange plein de bont connaissez vous la haineB
Les poings crisp s dans l'ombre et les larmes de fielC
Quand la Vengeance bat son infernal rappelC
Et de nos facult s se fait le capitaineB
Ange plein de bont connaissez vous la haineB
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Ange plein de sant connaissez vous les Fi vresA
Qui le long des grands murs de l'hospice blafardD
Comme des exil s s'en vont d'un pied tra nardD
Cherchant le soleil rare et remuant les l vresA
Ange plein de sant connaissez vous les Fi vresA
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Ange plein de beaut connaissez vous les ridesA
Et la peur de vieillir et ce hideux tourmentD
De lire la secr te horreur du d vouementD
Dans des yeux o longtemps burent nos yeux avideD
Ange plein de beaut connaissez vous les ridesA
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Ange plein de bonheur de joie et de lumi resA
David mourant aurait demand la santD
Aux manations de ton corps enchantD
Mais de toi je n'implore ange que tes pri resA
Ange plein de bonheur de joie et de lumi resA
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ReversibilityD
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Angel full of gaiety do you know anguishE
Shame remorse sobs vexationsA
And the vague terrors of those frightful nightsA
That compress the heart like a paper one crumplesA
Angel full of gaiety do you know anguishE
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Angel full of kindness do you know hatredD
The clenched fists in the darkness and the tears of gallC
When Vengeance beats out his hellish call to armsA
And makes himself the captain of our facultiesA
Angel full of kindness do you know hatredD
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Angel full of health do you know FeverF
Walking like an exile moving with dragging stepsA
Along the high wan walls of the charity wardD
And with muttering lips seeking the rare sunlightD
Angel full of health do you know FeverF
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Angel full of beauty do you know wrinklesA
The fear of growing old and the hideous tormentD
Of reading in the eyes of her he once adoredD
Horror at seeing love turning to devotionB
Angel full of beauty do you know wrinklesA
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Angel full of happiness of joy and of lightD
David on his death bed would have appealed for healthG
To the emanations of your enchanted fleshH
But of you angel I beg only prayersA
Angel full of happiness of joy and of lightD
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Translated by William AggelerF
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ReversibilityD
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Angel of gaiety have you known anguishE
Shame and remorse tears boredom and dismayI
Vague horrors of the nights in which we languishE
Which crumple hearts like papers thrown awayI
Angel of gaiety have you known anguishE
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Angel of kindness have you met with hateD
Fists clenched in gloom eyes running tears of gallC
When Vengeance beats his drum to subjugateD
Our faculties the captain of them allC
Angel of kindness have you met with hateD
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Angel of health have you beheld the FeversA
Across pale walls of wards they limp and stumbleC
Like exiles wan with agues chills and shiversA
Seeking the scanty sun with lips that mumbleC
Angel of health have you beheld the FeversA
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Angel of beauty do you know Old AgeJ
The fear of wrinkles and the dire emotionB
In eyes we've pierced too long as on a pageJ
To read the secret horror of devotionB
Angel of beauty do you know Old AgeJ
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Angel of goodness radiance and delightD
The dying David would have begged to shareF
The emanations of your body brightD
But all I wish to ask of you is prayerF
Angel of goodness radiance and delightD
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Translated by Roy CampbellC
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The Angelic OneB
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Spirit of happiness hast thou heard tell of woeK
Hast thou heard tell of anguish and remorse and careF
Of those long nights when in the black fist of DespairF
The heart is crumpled up like paper Dost thou knowK
Spirit of happiness Hast thou heard tell of woeK
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Spirit of kindliness hast thou heard tell of hateD
The clenched hands in the darkness the silent bitter tearsA
With Vengeance beating in the arteries of our earsA
Its dogged tom tom irresistible as fateD
Spirit of kindliness hast thou heard tell of hateD
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Spirit of health hast thou heard whisper of DiseaseA
Whose pallid children in the courtyard gray with sootD
Of the bleak hospital go dragging a slow footD
To find a patch of sunlight Host thou heard of theseA
Spirit of health hast thou heard whisper of DiseaseA
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Spirit of beauty hast thou heard of uglinessA
Of the long secret torment of growing old aboveL
All else the pain of reading in the eyes we loveL
A wordless horror even while the lips say 'yes '-
Spirit of beauty hast thou heard of uglinessA
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Spirit of joy spirit of beauty spirit of lightD
David grown old would have thought nothing to imploreF
Thy healing touch thy warm young presence in the nightD
But spirit I only ask of thee thy prayers no moreF
Spirit of joy spirit of beauty spirit of lightD
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Translated by George DillonB
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ReversibilityD
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Angel teeming with gaiety do you know griefM
Anguish remorse and shame their ravages and blightsA
And the vague terrors of those panic stricken nightsA
Which squeeze the heartstrings dry as a sere crumpled leafM
Angel teeming with gaiety do you know griefM
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Angel teeming with kindliness do you know hateD
Fists tight clenched in the shadows scalding tears of gallC
When Vengeance roars with his infernal battle callC
Making himself the captain of our acts and fateD
Angel teeming with kindliness do you know hateD
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Angel teeming with healthfulness do you know FeverF
Who like an exile lopes with dragging step towardsA
The wan stark walls of hospitals and public wardsA
Mumbling seeking rare sunlight for a brace or leverF
Angel teeming with healthfulness do you know FeverF
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Angel teeming with loveliness do you know wrinklesA
The fear of growing old and like a poisoned potionB
The dread of seeing love turn into fond devotionB
In eyes adored once blue and pure as periwinklesA
Angel teeming with loveliness do you know wrinklesA
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Angel teeming with happy blithe luminous airsA
David upon his deathbed would have craved for powerF
From the suave emanations of your body's flowerF
But I angel beseech of you only your prayersA
Angel teeming with happy blithe luminous airsA
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Translated by Jacques LeClercqN

Charles Baudelaire



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