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 trangeA
Montant comme la mer sur le roc noir et nuB
Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendangeA
Vivre est un mal C'est un secret de tous connuB
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Une douleur tr s simple et non myst rieuseC
Et comme votre joie clatante pour tousC
Cessez donc de chercher belle curieuseC
Et bien que votre voix soit douce taisez vousC
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Taisez vous ignorante me toujours ravieD
Bouche au rire enfantin Plus encor que la VieD
La Mort nous tient souvent par des liens subtilsC
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Laissez laissez mon coeur s'enivrer d'un mensongeA
Plonger dans vos beaux yeux comme dans un beau songeA
Et sommeiller longtemps l'ombre de vos cilsC
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Ever the SameE
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'Whence comes to you you asked this singular sadnessC
That rises like the sea on the naked black rock '-
Once our heart has gathered the grapes from its vineyardF
Living is an evil That's a secret known to allG
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A simple pain with no mysteryH
As obvious to all men as your gaietyF
So abandon your search inquisitive beautyF
And though your voice is sweet be stillI
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Be silent ignorant ever enraptured soulJ
Mouth with the child like laugh Still more than LifeD
Death holds us frequently with subtle bondsC
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Let let my heart become drunk with a lie let itF
Plunge into your fair eyes as into a fair dreamK
And slumber long in the shadow of your lashesC
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Translated by William AggelerH
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Semper EademK
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'Whence ' ask you 'does this strange new sadness flowL
Like rising tides on rocks black bare and vast '-
For human hearts when vintage time is pastF
To live is bad That secret all men knowL
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An obvious sorrow with no mystery shownB
Clear as your joy to everyone aroundF
O curious one seek nothing more profoundF
And speak not though your voice be sweet in toneB
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Hush ignorant Hush soul that's still enrapturedF
And mouth of childish laughter Neatly capturedF
Death pulls us more than life with subtle wileM
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Oh let my thought get drunk upon a lieD
And plunge as in a dream in either eyeD
And in their lashes' shadow sleep awhileM
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Translated by Roy CampbellN
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Semper EademK
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'What in the world ' you said 'has brought on this black moodF
Climbing you as the sea climbs up a naked reef '-
When once the heart has made its harvest understoodF
By all men this why just to be alive is griefD
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A pain quite simple nothing mysterious at allG
And like that joy of yours patent to all we meetF
Stop asking questions then I beg of you and fallG
Silent a while fair prober though your voice be sweetF
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Ah yes be silent ignorant girl always so gayO
Mouth with the childlike laughter More than Life I sayO
Death has the power to hold us by most subtle tiesC
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My one fictitious comfort kindly let me keepP
To plunge as into dreams into your lovely eyesC
And in the shadow of your lashes fall asleepP
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Translated by Edna St Vincent MillayO
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Semper eadamK
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you asked 'what floods of gloom engulf you strangeA
as creeping tides against a bare black wall '-
when hearts once crush their grapes and close the grangeA
life is an evil secret known to allG
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'tis but the common grief each man betraysC
to all as you your joy in eyes or browH
so veil my fair one your inquiring gazeC
and though your voice is low be silent nowH
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be silent simple soul mouth always gayO
with girlish laughter more than Life todayO
Death binds our hearts with tenuous webs of doomK
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let mine be drunken with the wine of liesC
o let me delve for dreams in those deep eyesC
and slumber long beneath your eyebrows' gloomK
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Translated by Lewis Piaget ShanksC

Charles Baudelaire



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