The Balcony Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBA ADEEA FCGHF IJKLI MNNDM AFOFA| Mother of memories mistress of mistresses | A |
| O you all my pleasures O you all my learning | B |
| You will remember the joy of caresses | C |
| the sweetness of home and the beauty of evening | B |
| Mother of memories mistress of mistresses | A |
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| On evenings lit by the glow of the ashes | A |
| and on the balcony veiled rose coloured misted | D |
| how gentle your breast was how good your heart to me | E |
| We have said things meant for eternity | E |
| on evenings lit by the glow of the ashes | A |
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| How lovely the light is on sultry evenings | F |
| How deep the void grows How powerful the heart is | C |
| As I leaned towards you queen of adored ones | G |
| I thought I breathed perfume from your blood s kiss | H |
| How lovely the light is on sultry evenings | F |
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| The night it was thickening and closing around us | I |
| and my eyes in the dark were divining your glance | J |
| and I drank your nectar Oh sweetness Oh poison | K |
| your feet held here in these fraternal hands | L |
| The night it was thickening and closing around us | I |
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| I know how to summon up happiest moments | M |
| and relive my past there curled touching your knees | N |
| What good to search for your languorous beauties | N |
| but in your dear body and your heart so sweet | D |
| I know how to summon up happiest moments | M |
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| Those vows those perfumes those infinite kisses | A |
| will they be reborn from gulfs beyond soundings | F |
| as the suns that are young again climb in the sky | O |
| after they ve passed through the deepest of drownings | F |
| O vows O perfumes O infinite kisses | A |
Charles Baudelaire
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