The Way Her Silky Garments Undulate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGA HIJ KFFThe way her silky garments undulate | A |
It seems she's dancing as she walks along | B |
Like serpents that the sacred charmers make | C |
To move in rhythms of their waving wands | D |
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Like desert sands and skies she is as well | E |
As unconcerned with human misery | F |
Like the long networks of the ocean's swells | G |
Unfolding with insensibility | A |
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Her polished eyes are made of charming stones | H |
And in her essence where the natures mix | I |
Of holy angel and the ancient sphinx | J |
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Where all is lit with gold steel diamonds | K |
A useless star it shines eternally | F |
The sterile woman's frigid majesty | F |
Charles Baudelaire
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