The Head Of Hair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBB DEFGE HIJKJ BLBBG MBNNB OBOOB PQPPQ| O fleece billowing down to the shoulders | A |
| O curls O perfume charged with languor | B |
| Ecstasy To populate love's dark alcove | C |
| With memories sleeping tonight in your hair | B |
| I'd wave it like a handkerchief in the air | B |
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| Languid Asia and burning Africa | D |
| absent worlds far off almost dead | E |
| live in your forest depths of aromas | F |
| As music floats other spirits away | G |
| mine my love sails your fragrance instead | E |
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| I'll go where full of sap trees and men | H |
| Swoon endlessly in that ardent climate | I |
| Thick tresses be my tide You contain | J |
| O sea of ebony the dazzling dream | K |
| of masts flames sails and oarsmen | J |
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| an echoing port where my soul's a drinker | B |
| of sound colour scent in rolling waves | L |
| where vessels gliding through silk and amber | B |
| open wide their arms to clasp the splendour | B |
| of a pure sky quivering with eternal day | G |
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| I'll plunge my head in love with drunkenness | M |
| in this dark ocean which encloses the other | B |
| and my subtle spirit the breakers caress | N |
| will know how to find you fertile indolence | N |
| Infinite lullaby full of the balm of leisure | B |
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| Hair of blue that hangs like a shadowy tent | O |
| you bring me the round immense sky's azure | B |
| in your plaited tresses' feathery descent | O |
| I grow fervently drunk with the mingled scent | O |
| of coconut oil of musk and coal tar | B |
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| Now Always My hand in your heavy mane sowing | P |
| jewels the sapphire the pearl and the ruby | Q |
| so that you'll not remain deaf to my longing | P |
| Oasis of dream the gourd where I'm drinking | P |
| of you long draughts of the wine of memory | Q |
Charles Baudelaire
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