To She Who Is Too Light-hearted Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEEFFFFFGHIJKFLK FKMFNFONLPPQNRSN| Your head your gesture your air | A |
| are lovely like a lovely landscape | B |
| laughter s alive in your face | C |
| a fresh breeze in a clear atmosphere | D |
| The dour passer by you brush past there | A |
| is dazzled by health in flight | E |
| flashing like a brilliant light | E |
| from your arms and shoulders | F |
| The resounding colours | F |
| with which you sprinkle your dress | F |
| inspire the spirits of poets | F |
| with thoughts of dancing flowers | F |
| Those wild clothes are the emblem | G |
| of your brightly hued mind | H |
| madcap by whom I m terrified | I |
| I hate you and love you the same | J |
| Sometimes in a lovely garden | K |
| where I trailed my listlessness | F |
| I ve felt the sunlight sear my breast | L |
| like some ironic weapon | K |
| and Spring s green presence | F |
| brought such humiliation | K |
| I ve levied retribution on | M |
| a flower for Nature s insolence | F |
| So through some night when the hour | N |
| of sensual pleasure sounds | F |
| I d like to slink mute coward bound | O |
| for your body s treasure | N |
| to bruise your sorry breast | L |
| to punish your joyful flesh | P |
| form in your startled side a fresh | P |
| wound s yawning depth | Q |
| and breath taking rapture | N |
| through those lips new and full | R |
| more vivid and more beautiful | S |
| infuse my venom my sister | N |
Charles Baudelaire
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