Semper Eadem (ever The Same) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCCC DDC AAC E C FG HFFI JDC FKC H K L FL BFFB FFM DDM N K F FD GFGF OOC PCP O K A AG CHCH OOK CCK C| D'o vous vient disiez vous cette tristesse trange | A |
| Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nu | B |
| Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange | A |
| Vivre est un mal C'est un secret de tous connu | B |
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| Une douleur tr s simple et non myst rieuse | C |
| Et comme votre joie clatante pour tous | C |
| Cessez donc de chercher belle curieuse | C |
| Et bien que votre voix soit douce taisez vous | C |
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| Taisez vous ignorante me toujours ravie | D |
| Bouche au rire enfantin Plus encor que la Vie | D |
| La Mort nous tient souvent par des liens subtils | C |
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| Laissez laissez mon coeur s'enivrer d'un mensonge | A |
| Plonger dans vos beaux yeux comme dans un beau songe | A |
| Et sommeiller longtemps l'ombre de vos cils | C |
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| Ever the Same | E |
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| 'Whence comes to you you asked this singular sadness | C |
| That rises like the sea on the naked black rock ' | - |
| Once our heart has gathered the grapes from its vineyard | F |
| Living is an evil That's a secret known to all | G |
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| A simple pain with no mystery | H |
| As obvious to all men as your gaiety | F |
| So abandon your search inquisitive beauty | F |
| And though your voice is sweet be still | I |
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| Be silent ignorant ever enraptured soul | J |
| Mouth with the child like laugh Still more than Life | D |
| Death holds us frequently with subtle bonds | C |
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| Let let my heart become drunk with a lie let it | F |
| Plunge into your fair eyes as into a fair dream | K |
| And slumber long in the shadow of your lashes | C |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | H |
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| Semper Eadem | K |
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| 'Whence ' ask you 'does this strange new sadness flow | L |
| Like rising tides on rocks black bare and vast ' | - |
| For human hearts when vintage time is past | F |
| To live is bad That secret all men know | L |
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| An obvious sorrow with no mystery shown | B |
| Clear as your joy to everyone around | F |
| O curious one seek nothing more profound | F |
| And speak not though your voice be sweet in tone | B |
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| Hush ignorant Hush soul that's still enraptured | F |
| And mouth of childish laughter Neatly captured | F |
| Death pulls us more than life with subtle wile | M |
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| Oh let my thought get drunk upon a lie | D |
| And plunge as in a dream in either eye | D |
| And in their lashes' shadow sleep awhile | M |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | N |
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| Semper Eadem | K |
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| 'What in the world ' you said 'has brought on this black mood | F |
| Climbing you as the sea climbs up a naked reef ' | - |
| When once the heart has made its harvest understood | F |
| By all men this why just to be alive is grief | D |
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| A pain quite simple nothing mysterious at all | G |
| And like that joy of yours patent to all we meet | F |
| Stop asking questions then I beg of you and fall | G |
| Silent a while fair prober though your voice be sweet | F |
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| Ah yes be silent ignorant girl always so gay | O |
| Mouth with the childlike laughter More than Life I say | O |
| Death has the power to hold us by most subtle ties | C |
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| My one fictitious comfort kindly let me keep | P |
| To plunge as into dreams into your lovely eyes | C |
| And in the shadow of your lashes fall asleep | P |
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| Translated by Edna St Vincent Millay | O |
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| Semper eadam | K |
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| you asked 'what floods of gloom engulf you strange | A |
| as creeping tides against a bare black wall ' | - |
| when hearts once crush their grapes and close the grange | A |
| life is an evil secret known to all | G |
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| 'tis but the common grief each man betrays | C |
| to all as you your joy in eyes or brow | H |
| so veil my fair one your inquiring gaze | C |
| and though your voice is low be silent now | H |
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| be silent simple soul mouth always gay | O |
| with girlish laughter more than Life today | O |
| Death binds our hearts with tenuous webs of doom | K |
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| let mine be drunken with the wine of lies | C |
| o let me delve for dreams in those deep eyes | C |
| and slumber long beneath your eyebrows' gloom | K |
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| Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | C |
Charles Baudelaire
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