Song Of The Afternoon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEAE ABAB FGAH IAJA AAAK AALA MNON APQR STPT| Although your wayward brows | A |
| Give you a curious air | B |
| Angelic not at all | C |
| Witch of the tempting stare | B |
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| I love you with a passion | D |
| Terrible and odd | E |
| With the obeisance | A |
| Of priest to golden god | E |
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| The desert and the woods | A |
| Embalm your heavy hair | B |
| Your head takes attitudes | A |
| Mysterious and rare | B |
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| A censer's faint perfume | F |
| Prowls along your skin | G |
| You charm as evening charms | A |
| Warm and shadowy Nymph | H |
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| Ah strongest potions stir me | I |
| Less than your idleness | A |
| And you can make the dead | J |
| Revive with your caress | A |
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| Your hips are amorous | A |
| Of back and breasts and thighs | A |
| And ravished by your pose | A |
| Are cushions where you lie | K |
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| Sometimes to appease | A |
| A rage that comes in fits | A |
| Serious one you squander | L |
| Bites within the kiss | A |
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| You wound me my brunette | M |
| With ever mocking smile | N |
| Then sweetly like the moon | O |
| Gaze on my heart a while | N |
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| Under your satin shoes | A |
| Your charming silken feet | P |
| I place myself my joy | Q |
| My genius and my fate | R |
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| My soul mended by you | S |
| By you color and light | T |
| Explosion of heat | P |
| In my Siberian night | T |
Charles Baudelaire
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