To A Madonna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGAAHHCC IIJJKKLLMMCCNNOOPP JJEEQQBB| Madonna mistress I would build for thee | A |
| An altar deep in the sad soul of me | A |
| And in the darkest corner of my heart | B |
| From mortal hopes and mocking eyes apart | B |
| Carve of enamelled blue and gold a shrine | C |
| For thee to stand erect in Image divine | C |
| And with a mighty Crown thou shalt be crowned | D |
| Wrought of the gold of my smooth Verse set round | D |
| With starry crystal rhymes and I will make | E |
| O mortal maid a Mantle for thy sake | E |
| And weave it of my jealousy a gown | F |
| Heavy barbaric stiff and weighted down | F |
| With my distrust and broider round the hem | G |
| Not pearls but all my tears in place of them | G |
| And then thy wavering trembling robe shall be | A |
| All the desires that rise and fall in me | A |
| From mountain peaks to valleys of repose | H |
| Kissing thy lovely body's white and rose | H |
| For thy humiliated feet divine | C |
| Of my Respect I'll make thee Slippers fine | C |
| Which prisoning them within a gentle fold | I |
| Shall keep their imprint like a faithful mould | I |
| And if my art unwearying and discreet | J |
| Can make no Moon of Silver for thy feet | J |
| To have for Footstool then thy heel shall rest | K |
| Upon the snake that gnaws within my breast | K |
| Victorious Queen of whom our hope is born | L |
| And thou shalt trample down and make a scorn | L |
| Of the vile reptile swollen up with hate | M |
| And thou shalt see my thoughts all consecrate | M |
| Like candles set before thy flower strewn shrine | C |
| O Queen of Virgins and the taper shine | C |
| Shall glimmer star like in the vault of blue | N |
| With eyes of flame for ever watching you | N |
| While all the love and worship in my sense | O |
| Will be sweet smoke of myrrh and frankincense | O |
| Ceaselessly up to thee white peak of snow | P |
| My stormy spirit will in vapours go | P |
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| And last to make thy drama all complete | J |
| That love and cruelty may mix and meet | J |
| I thy remorseful torturer will take | E |
| All the Seven Deadly Sins and from them make | E |
| In darkest joy Seven Knives cruel edged and keen | Q |
| And like a juggler choosing O my Queen | Q |
| That spot profound whence love and mercy start | B |
| I'll plunge them all within thy panting heart | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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