To A Red-haired Beggar Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FFGG HIJK LMNN OPQR SSTU VVWX YYAA ZA2JK B2C2D2J KKA2A2 BA2E2W F2JBB| Pale girl with russet hair | A |
| Tatters in what you wear | A |
| Show us your poverty | B |
| And your beauty | B |
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| For me poor poet in | C |
| The frail and freckled skin | C |
| Of your young flesh | D |
| Is a sweetness | E |
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| You move in shoes of wood | F |
| More gallantly than could | F |
| A velvet buskined Queen | G |
| Playing a scene | G |
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| In place of rags for clothes | H |
| Let a majestic robe | I |
| Trail in its bustling pleats | J |
| Down to your feet | K |
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| Behind the holes in seams | L |
| Let a gold dagger gleam | M |
| Laid for the roue's eye | N |
| Along your thigh | N |
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| Let loosened ribbons then | O |
| Unveil us for our sins | P |
| Two breasts as undisguised | Q |
| And bright as eyes | R |
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| As for your other charms | S |
| Let your resistant arms | S |
| Frustrate with saucy blows | T |
| The groping rogues | U |
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| Pearls of a lustrous glow | V |
| Sonnets penned by Belleau | V |
| Suitors at your command | W |
| Constantly send | X |
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| Menial rhymsters too | Y |
| Dedicate works to you | Y |
| Seeing your slipper there | A |
| Under the stair | A |
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| Pages and noble lords | Z |
| Would be Ronsards galore | A2 |
| Spy for the secret sweets | J |
| Of your retreat | K |
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| Lilies in your alcove | B2 |
| Count less than making love | C2 |
| You'd hold to lovers' law | D2 |
| Several Valois' | J |
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| Meanwhile you beg to eat | K |
| Stale bread and tainted meat | K |
| Thrown from an alley door | A2 |
| Backstreet Vefour | A2 |
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| And covet secretly | B |
| The cheapest jewellery | A2 |
| Which I forgive me can't | E2 |
| Place in your hand | W |
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| Go then a starveling girl | F2 |
| With no perfume or pearls | J |
| Only your nudity | B |
| O my beauty | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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