To A Woman Of Malabar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHIIJJEKLL MMAALLLL| Your feet are as slender as hands your hips to me | A |
| wide enough for the sweetest white girl s envy | A |
| to the wise artist your body is sweet and dear | B |
| and your great velvet eyes black without peer | B |
| In the hot blue lands where God gave you your nature | C |
| your task is to light a pipe for your master | C |
| to fill up the vessels with cool fragrance | D |
| and chase the mosquitoes away when they dance | E |
| and when dawn sings in the plane trees afar | F |
| fetch bananas and pineapples from the bazaar | F |
| All day your bare feet go where they wish | G |
| as you hum old lost melodies under your breath | H |
| and when evening s red cloak descends overhead | I |
| you lie down sweetly on a straw bed | I |
| where humming birds fill your floating dreams | J |
| as graceful and flowery as you it seems | J |
| Happy child why do you long to see France | E |
| our suffering and over crowded land | K |
| and trusting your life to the sailors your friends | L |
| say a fond goodbye to your dear tamarinds | L |
| Scantily dressed in muslins frail | M |
| shivering under the snow and hail | M |
| how you d pine for your leisure sweet and free | A |
| body pinned in a corset s brutality | A |
| if you d to glean supper amongst our vile harms | L |
| selling the scent of exotic charms | L |
| sad pensive eyes searching our fog bound sleaze | L |
| for the lost ghosts of your coconut trees | L |
Charles Baudelaire
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