Remords Posthume (posthumous Remorse) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDC DAA A CECF DAGA ADA C C B A HDDH DGGD CAA C C E A DDDDDDDD IICC A J D DHDH DADA DKD K I A K AKKA AKKA ILI L A A| Lorsque tu dormiras ma belle t n breuse | A |
| Au fond d'un monument construit en marbre noir | B |
| Et lorsque tu n'auras pour alc ve et manoir | B |
| Qu'un caveau pluvieux et qu'une fosse creuse | A |
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| Quand la pierre opprimant ta poitrine peureuse | A |
| Et tes flancs qu'assouplit un charmant nonchaloir | B |
| Emp chera ton coeur de battre et de vouloir | B |
| Et tes pieds de courir leur course aventureuse | A |
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| Le tombeau confident de mon r ve infini | C |
| Car le tombeau toujours comprendra le po te | D |
| Durant ces grandes nuits d'o le somme est banni | C |
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| Te dira Que vous sert courtisane imparfaite | D |
| De n'avoir pas connu ce que pleurent les morts | A |
| Et le vers rongera ta peau comme un remords | A |
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| Posthumous Remorse | A |
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| When you will sleep O dusky beauty mine | C |
| Beneath a monument fashioned of black marble | E |
| When you will have for bedroom and mansion | C |
| Only a rain swept vault and a hollow grave | F |
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| When the slab of stone oppressing your frightened breast | D |
| And your flanks now supple with charming nonchalance | A |
| Will keep your heart from beating from wishing | G |
| And your feet from running their adventurous course | A |
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| The tomb confidant of my infinite dreams | A |
| For the tomb will always understand the poet | D |
| Through those long nights from which all sleep is banned will say | A |
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| 'What does it profit you imperfect courtesan | C |
| Not to have known why the dead weep ' | - |
| And like remorse the worm will gnaw your skin | C |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | B |
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| Posthumous Remorse | A |
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| When you're asleep dear shadow coloured wench | H |
| Within a coal black marble monument | D |
| When for your room and mansion you are pent | D |
| In a wet cellar and a hollow trench | H |
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| When the stone pressing on your startled breast | D |
| And flanks in fluent suppleness competing | G |
| Prevents your heart from wishing or from beating | G |
| Your feet from racing on their reckless quest | D |
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| The tomb that shares my deathless recollection | C |
| For poets best are understood by tombs | A |
| On those long nights when never sleep presumes | A |
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| Will say 'What boots frail vase of imperfection | C |
| Not to have known what pains with death begin ' | - |
| And like remorse the worm will gnaw your skin | C |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | E |
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| Posthumous Remorse | A |
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| When O sweet dusky beauty you shall rest | D |
| Deep under a bleak marble monument | D |
| When for last manor yours the tenement | D |
| Of rainswept vault or hollow ditch at best | D |
| When the long stone weighs down your frightened breast | D |
| And flanks so supple now and indolent | D |
| Choking your heart's beat and your feet's intent | D |
| To race again on their adventurous quest | D |
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| The tomb confidant of my endless dreams shall keep | I |
| Vigil through those long nights that know not sleep | I |
| Poet and tomb were friends since Time began | C |
| Saying 'What use imperfect courtesan | C |
| Not to make known what dead men mourn perforce ' | - |
| While the worm gnaws you sharply as remorse | A |
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| Translated by Jacques LeClercq | J |
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| Remorse Too Late | D |
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| My dark and lovely thing when you at length lie dead | D |
| And sleep beneath a slab of marble black as pitch | H |
| And have for perfumed alcove and seductive bed | D |
| Only a rainy cavern and a hollow ditch | H |
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| When the oppressive stone upon your frightened breast | D |
| Lets settle all its weight and on your supple thighs | A |
| Restrains your heart from beating flattens it to rest | D |
| Bends down and binds your feet so roving so unwise | A |
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| The tomb that knows me well and reads my dream aright | D |
| What poet but confides his secret to the tomb | K |
| Will say to you some day during that endless night | D |
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| 'They fare but ill vain courtesan in this cold room | K |
| Who bring here no warm memories of true love to keep ' | - |
| And like remorse the worm will gnaw you in your sleep | I |
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| Translated by Edna St Vincent Millay | A |
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| Remords posthume | K |
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| when thou wilt sleep dark girl of shadowy gaze | A |
| down in the cold black marble of a tomb | K |
| a dripping vault thine only tiring room | K |
| thine only bed a grave where all decays | A |
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| when rock shall press thy paling breast and graze | A |
| thy limbs now languorous lovely in the gloom | K |
| shall crush thy faltering heart thy will consume | K |
| and halt thy feet in their adventurous ways | A |
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| the Grave that knows what infinite dreams I keep | I |
| o Grave the poet's friend forever thou | L |
| all through the night bereft of exiled sleep | I |
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| shall ask 'art sorry wretched wanton now | L |
| not to have learned why dead men weep perforce ' | - |
| and worms shall gnaw thy breast like sharp remorse | A |
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| Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | A |
Charles Baudelaire
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