The Jewels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EBBE BFFB BGGB HDDH IJJI KLLK| My well beloved was stripped Knowing my whim | A |
| She wore her tinkling gems but naught besides | B |
| And showed such pride as while her luck betides | B |
| A sultan's favoured slave may show to him | A |
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| When it lets off its lively crackling sound | C |
| This blazing blend of metal crossed with stone | D |
| Gives me an ecstasy I've only known | D |
| Where league of sound and luster can be found | C |
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| She let herself be loved then drowsy eyed | E |
| Smiled down from her high couch in languid ease | B |
| My love was deep and gentle as the seas | B |
| And rose to her as to a cliff the tide | E |
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| My own approval of each dreamy pose | B |
| Like a tamed tiger cunningly she sighted | F |
| And candour with lubricity united | F |
| Gave piquancy to every one she chose | B |
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| Her limbs and hips burnished with changing lustres | B |
| Before my eyes clairvoyant and serene | G |
| Swanned themselves undulating in their sheen | G |
| Her breasts and belly of my vine and clusters | B |
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| Like evil angels rose my fancy twitting | H |
| To kill the peace which over me she'd thrown | D |
| And to disturb her from the crystal throne | D |
| Where calm and solitary she was sitting | H |
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| So swerved her pelvis that in one design | I |
| Antiope's white rump it seemed to graft | J |
| To a boy's torso merging fore and aft | J |
| The talc on her brown tan seemed half divine | I |
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| The lamp resigned its dying flame Within | K |
| The hearth alone lit up the darkened air | L |
| And every time it sighed a crimson flare | L |
| It drowned in blood that amber coloured skin | K |
Charles Baudelaire
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