The Snake That Dances Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FAGA HIJI AKLM ANAA AOAP QDRS BTBU| How I love to watch dear indolence | A |
| like a bright shimmer | B |
| of fabric the skin of your elegant | C |
| body glimmer | B |
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| Over the bitter tasting perfume | D |
| the depths of your hair | E |
| odorous restless spume | D |
| blue and brown waves there | E |
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| like a vessel that stirs awake | F |
| when dawn winds rise | A |
| my dreaming soul sets sail | G |
| for those distant skies | A |
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| Your eyes where nothing's revealed | H |
| either acrid or sweet | I |
| are two cold jewels where steel | J |
| and gold both meet | I |
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| Seeing your rhythmic advance | A |
| your fine abandon | K |
| one might speak of a snake that danced | L |
| at the end of the branch it's on | M |
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| Under its burden of languidness | A |
| your head's child like slant | N |
| rocks with weak listlessness | A |
| like a young elephant's | A |
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| and your body heels and stretches | A |
| like some trim vessel | O |
| that rocking from side to side plunges | A |
| its yards in the swell | P |
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| As when the groaning glacier's thaw | Q |
| fills the flowing stream | D |
| so when your mouth's juices pour | R |
| to the tip of your teeth | S |
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| I fancy I'm drinking overpowering bitter | B |
| Bohemian wine | T |
| that over my heart will scatter | B |
| its stars a liquid sky | U |
Charles Baudelaire
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