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Un Fantà´me (a Phantom) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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I Les T n bres	A
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Dans les caveaux d'insondable tristesse	A
O le Destin m'a d j rel gu	B
O jamais n'entre un rayon rose et gai	C
O seul avec la Nuit maussade h tesse	A
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Je suis comme un peintre qu'un Dieu moqueur	D
Condamne peindre h las sur les t n bres	A
O cuisinier aux app tits fun bres	A
Je fais bouillir et je mange mon coeur	D
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Par instants brille et s'allonge et s' tale	E
Un spectre fait de gr ce et de splendeur	D
sa r veuse allure orientale	E
Quand il atteint sa totale grandeur	D
Je reconnais ma belle visiteuse	A
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C'est Elle noire et pourtant lumineuse	A
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II Le Parfum	F
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Lecteur as tu quelquefois respir	D
Avec ivresse et lente gourmandise	A
Ce grain d'encens qui remplit une glise	A
Ou d'un sachet le musc inv t r	D
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Charme profond magique dont nous grise	A
Dans le pr sent le pass restaur	D
Ainsi l'amant sur un corps ador	D
Du souvenir cueille la fleur exquise	A
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De ses cheveux lastiques et lourds	A
Vivant sachet encensoir de l'alc ve	G
Une senteur montait sauvage et fauve	G
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Et des habits mousseline ou velours	A
Tout impr gn s de sa jeunesse pure	D
Se d gageait un parfum de fourrure	D
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III Le Cadre	D
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Comme un beau cadre ajoute la peinture	D
Bien qu'elle soit d'un pinceau tr s vant	H
Je ne sais quoi d' trange et d'enchant	H
En l'isolant de l'immense nature	D
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Ainsi bijoux meubles m taux dorure	D
S'adaptaient juste sa rare beaut	H
Rien n'offusquait sa parfaite clart	H
Et tout semblait lui servir de bordure	D
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M me on e t dit parfois qu'elle croyait	H
Que tout voulait l'aimer elle noyait	H
Sa nudit voluptueusement	H
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Dans les baisers du satin et du linge	I
Et lente ou brusque chaque mouvement	H
Montrait la gr ce enfantine du singe	I
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IV Le Portrait	H
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La Maladie et la Mort font des cendres	A
De tout le feu qui pour nous flamboya	J
De ces grands yeux si fervents et si tendres	A
De cette bouche o mon coeur se noya	J
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De ces baisers puissants comme un dictame	F
De ces transports plus vifs que des rayons	A
Que reste t il C'est affreux mon me	F
Rien qu'un dessin fort p le aux trois crayons	A
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Qui comme moi meurt dans la solitude	H
Et que le Temps injurieux vieillard	H
Chaque jour frotte avec son aile rude	H
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Noir assassin de la Vie et de l'Art	H
Tu ne tueras jamais dans ma m moire	D
Celle qui fut mon plaisir et ma gloire	D
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A Phantom	F
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I The Darkness	A
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In the mournful vaults of fathomless gloom	F
To which Fate has already banished me	F
Where a bright rosy beam never enters	A
Where alone with Night that sullen hostess	A
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I'm like a painter whom a mocking God	H
Condemns to paint alas upon darkness	A
Where a cook with a woeful appetite	H
I boil and I eat my own heart	H
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At times there shines and lengthens and broadens	A
A specter made of grace and of splendor	D
By its dreamy oriental manner	D
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When it attains its full stature	D
I recognize my lovely visitor	D
It's She dark and yet luminous	A
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II The Perfume	F
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Reader have you at times inhaled	H
With rapture and slow greediness	A
That grain of incense which pervades a church	K
Or the inveterate musk of a sachet	H
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Profound magical charm with which the past	H
Restored to life makes us inebriate	H
Thus the lover from an adored body	F
Plucks memory's exquisite flower	D
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From her tresses heavy and elastic	L
Living sachet censer for the bedroom	F
A wild and savage odor rose	A
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And from her clothes of muslin or velvet	H
All redolent of her youth's purity	F
There emanated the odor of furs	A
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III The Frame	F
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As a lovely frame adds to a painting	M
Even though it's from a master's brush	N
An indefinable strangeness and charm	F
By isolating it from vast nature	D
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Thus jewels metals gilding furniture	D
Suited her rare beauty to perfection	O
Nothing dimmed its flawless splendor	D
All seemed to form for her a frame	F
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One would even have said that she believed	H
That everything wished to love her she drowned	H
Her nudity voluptuously	E
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In the kisses of the satin and linen	O
And with each movement slow or brusque	P
She showed the child like grace of a monkey	F
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IV The Portrait	H
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Disease and Death make ashes	A
Of all the fire that flamed for us	A
Of those wide eyes so fervent and tender	D
Of that mouth in which my heart was drowned	H
Of those kisses potent as dittany	O
Of those transports more vivid than sunbeams	A
What remains It is frightful O my soul	E
Nothing but a faint sketch in three colors	A
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Which like me is dying in solitude	H
And which Time that contemptuous old man	O
Grazes each day with his rough wing	M
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Black murderer of Life and Art	H
You will never kill in my memory	F
The one who was my glory and my joy	I
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Translated by William Aggeler	F
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A Phantom	F
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I The Shades	A
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My fate confines me dark and shady	F
In vaults of lone unfathomed grief	G
No rosy sunbeams bring relief	G
Alone with Night my grim landlady	F
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I'm like a painter whom God spites	A
To paint on shades and cook and eat	H
My own poor heart the only meat	H
Of my funereal appetites	A
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Sometimes a spectre dim reclining	M
In grace and glory can be seen	O
With dreamy oriental mien	O
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When fully its own form defining	M
I recognise who it must be	F
Sombre yet luminous it's She	F
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II The Perfume	F
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Reader say have you ever breathed	H
With lazy greed and joy the dusk	P
Of an old church with incense wreathed	H
Or smelt an ancient bag of musk	P
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It's by such charms the Nevermore	F
Intoxicates us in the Now	O
As lovers to Remembrance bow	O
Over the bodies they adore	F
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From her thick tresses as they fume	F
Scent sack and censer of the room	F
A feline tawny perfume springs	A
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Her muslins and her velvets smooth	Q
Give off made pregnant with her youth	R
Scents of the fur of prowling things	A
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III The Frame	F
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As a fine frame improves a plate	H
Although the graver needs no vaunting	P
I know not what of strange and haunting	P
From nature vast to isolate	H
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Her beauty was conferred by gems	A
Metals and gear She mingled with them	F
And swirled them all into her rhythm	F
As in her skirts the flouncing herns	A
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They say she thought all things were stung	P
With love for her Her naked flesh	S
She loved to drown in kisses fresh	S
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Of flax or satin To her clung	P
In all the movements of her shape	T
The childish graces of the ape	T
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IV The Portrait	H
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Sickness and death will form the ash and dust	H
Of all the fire we blazed with in such splendour	F
Of those great eyes so fervent and so tender	F
The mouth wherein my heart would drown its lust	H
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The kisses strong as marum the delightful	E
Fierce transports livelier than the solar rays	A
What can remain My soul the truth is frightful	E
A fading sketch a faint three coloured haze	A
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Which like myself unfriended wanes away	H
While Time insulting dotard every day	H
Brushes it fainter with his heedless wing	P
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Killer of life and art black evil King	P
You'll never kill within my soul the story	F
Of that which was my rapture and my glory	F
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Translated by Roy Campbell	E
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Portrait	H
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Disease and Death make ashes out of all	E
The fires that flamed for us out of the round	H
Wide eyes so fervent and so kind withal	E
Out of the mouth wherein my heart was drowned	H
Out of our kisses strong as pepperwort	H
Out of throes bright as patterns sunbeams etch	U
What is left now What dreadful last resort	H
O Soul Only a faint three colored sketch	U
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Which is like me a lonely dying thing	P
And which that oldster Time with scornful heart	H
Bruises each day beneath his jagged wing	P
Slayer of Life and murderer of Art	H
Mine still one treasure you shall not destroy	F
She who was all my glory and my joy	F
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The original publication only includes this last section of the poem	F
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	P
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The Portrait	H
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Disease and Death these are the ashes of	G
All that was fire and warmed us heretofore	F
Of those big eyes so full of faith an	O