The Dancing Serpent Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKJ LMCM NMOM MPQR SNSS TUMU VMSM| How I adore dear indolent | A |
| Your lovely body when | B |
| Like silken cloth it shimmers | C |
| Your sleek and glimmering skin | D |
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| Within the ocean of your hair | E |
| All pungent with perfumes | F |
| A fragrant and a wayward sea | G |
| Of waves of browns and blues | H |
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| Like a brave ship awakening | I |
| To winds at break of day | J |
| My dreamy soul sets forth on course | K |
| For skies so far away | J |
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| Your eyes where nothing is revealed | L |
| The bitter nor the sweet | M |
| Are two cold stones in which the tinctures | C |
| Gold and iron meet | M |
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| Viewing the rhythm of your walk | N |
| Beautifully dissolute | M |
| One seems to see a serpent dance | O |
| Before a wand and flute | M |
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| Your childlike head lolls with the weight | M |
| Of all your idleness | P |
| And sways with all the slackness of | Q |
| A baby elephant's | R |
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| And your lithe body bends and stretches | S |
| Like a splendid barque | N |
| That rolls from side to side and wets | S |
| With seas its tipping yards | S |
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| As when the booming glaciers thaw | T |
| They swell the waves beneath | U |
| When your mouth's water floods into | M |
| The borders of your teeth | U |
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| I know I drink a gypsy wine | V |
| Bitter subduing tart | M |
| A liquid sky that strews and spangles | S |
| Stars across my heart | M |
Charles Baudelaire
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