Al Claro De Luna (in The Light Of The Moon) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB BBBB CCDDDD A BBEB FGBD CCDDBB| Spanish | A |
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| La luna es p lida y triste la luna es exang e y yerta | B |
| La media luna fig raseme un suave perfil de muerta | B |
| Yo que prefiero a la insigne palidez encarecida | B |
| De todas las perlas rabes la rosa reci n abierta | B |
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| En un rinc n del terru o con el color de la vida | B |
| Adoro esa luna p lida adoro esa faz de muerta | B |
| Y en el altar de las noches como una flor encendida | B |
| Y ebria de extra os perfumes mi alma la inciensa rendida | B |
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| Yo s de labios marchitos en la blasfemia y el vino | C |
| Que besan tras de la orgia sus huellas en el camino | C |
| Locos que mueren besando su imagen en lagos yertos | D |
| Porque ella es luz de inocencia porque a esa luz misteriosa | D |
| Alumbran las cosas blancas se ponen blancas las cosas | D |
| Y hasta las almas m s negras toman clarores inciertos | D |
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| English | A |
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| The moon is pallid and sad the moon is bloodless and cold | B |
| I imagine the half moon as a profile of the dead | B |
| And beyond the reknowned and praised pallor | E |
| Of Arab pearls I prefer the rose in recent bud | B |
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| In a corner of this land with the colors of earth | F |
| I adore this pale moon I adore this death mask | G |
| And at the altar of the night like a flower inflamed | B |
| Inebriated by strange perfumes my soul resigns | D |
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| I know of lips withered with blasphemy and wine | C |
| After an orgy they kiss her trace in the lane | C |
| Insane ones who die kissing her image in lakes | D |
| Because she is light of innocence because white things | D |
| Illuminate her mysterious light things taking on white | B |
| And even the blackest souls become uncertainly bright | B |
Delmira Agustini
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