à? Une Dame Créole (to A Creole Lady) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA AAAA BBA AAA C AAAD AEAF CBA AAA B C GAAG HEEH CGC AAG I C JAAC AEAB CBA KAA B| Au pays parfum que le soleil caresse | A |
| J'ai connu sous un dais d'arbres tout empourpr s | A |
| Et de palmiers d'o pleut sur les yeux la paresse | A |
| Une dame cr ole aux charmes ignor s | A |
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| Son teint est p le et chaud la brune enchanteresse | A |
| A dans le cou des airs noblement mani r s | A |
| Grande et svelte en marchant comme une chasseresse | A |
| Son sourire est tranquille et ses yeux assur s | A |
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| Si vous alliez Madame au vrai pays de gloire | B |
| Sur les bords de la Seine ou de la verte Loire | B |
| Belle digne d'orner les antiques manoirs | A |
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| Vous feriez l'abri des ombreuses retraites | A |
| Germer mille sonnets dans le coeur des po tes | A |
| Que vos grands yeux rendraient plus soumis que vos noirs | A |
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| To a Creole Lady | C |
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| In the perfumed country which the sun caresses | A |
| I knew under a canopy of crimson trees | A |
| And palms from which indolence rains into your eyes | A |
| A Creole lady whose charms were unknown | D |
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| Her complexion is pale and warm the dark enchantress | A |
| Affects a noble air with the movements of her neck | E |
| Tall and slender she walks like a huntress | A |
| Her smile is calm and her eye confident | F |
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| If you went Madame to the true land of glory | C |
| On the banks of the Seine or along the green Loire | B |
| Beauty fit to ornament those ancient manors | A |
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| You'd make in the shelter of those shady retreats | A |
| A thousand sonnets grow in the hearts of poets | A |
| Whom your large eyes would make more subject than your slaves | A |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | B |
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| To a Colonial Lady | C |
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| In scented countries by the sun caressed | G |
| I've known beneath a tent of purple boughs | A |
| And palmtrees shedding slumber as they drowse | A |
| A creole lady with a charm unguessed | G |
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| She's pale and warm and duskily beguiling | H |
| Nobility is moulded in her neck | E |
| Slender and tall she holds herself in check | E |
| An huntress born sure eyed and quiet smiling | H |
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| Should you go Madam to the land of glory | C |
| Along the Seine or Loire where you would merit | G |
| To ornament some mansion famed in story | C |
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| Your eyes would bum in those deep shaded parts | A |
| And breed a thousand rhymes in poets' hearts | A |
| Tamed like the negro slaves that you inherit | G |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | I |
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| To a Creole Lady | C |
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| In that perfumed country caressed by the sun | J |
| I have known under a canopy of purple trees | A |
| And palms raining idleness upon the eyes | A |
| A creole lady of private beauty | C |
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| Her shade is pale and warm this brown enchantress | A |
| Has gracefully mannered airs in her neck | E |
| Large and sinuous walking like a huntress | A |
| Her smile is silent and her eyes secure | B |
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| If you should go Madam to the true country of glory | C |
| On the banks of the Seine or of the green Loire | B |
| Fair lady fit to decorate ancient mansions | A |
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| In some shady and secluded refuge you would awake | K |
| A thousand sonnets in the hearts of poets | A |
| Whom your great eyes would make more subject than your Blacks | A |
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| Translated by Geoffrey Wagner | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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