Carmen De Boheme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEDD FGFG HHII AAJJ KKLL| Sinuously winding through the room | A |
| On smokey tongues of sweetened cigarettes | B |
| Plaintive yet proud the cello tones resume | A |
| The andante of smooth hopes and lost regrets | B |
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| Bright peacocks drink from flame pots by the wall | C |
| Just as absinthe sipping women shiver through | D |
| With shimmering blue from the bowl in Circe's hall | C |
| Their brown eyes blacken and the blue drop hue | D |
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| The andante quivers with crescendo's start | E |
| And dies on fire's birth in each man's heart | E |
| The tapestry betrays a finger through | D |
| The slit soft pulling and music follows cue | D |
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| There is a sweep a shattering a choir | F |
| Disquieting of barbarous fantasy | G |
| The pulse is in the ears the heart is higher | F |
| And stretches up through mortal eyes to see | G |
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| Carmen Akimbo arms and smouldering eyes | H |
| Carmen Bestirring hope and lipping eyes | H |
| Carmen whirls and music swirls and dips | I |
| Carmen comes awed from wine hot lips | I |
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| Finale leaves in silence to replume | A |
| Bent wings and Carmen with her flaunts through the gloom | A |
| Of whispering tapestry brown with old fringe | J |
| The winers leave too and the small lamps twinge | J |
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| Morning and through the foggy city gate | K |
| A gypsy wagon wiggles striving straight | K |
| And some dream still of Carmen's mystic face | L |
| Yellow pallid like ancient lace | L |
Harold Hart Crane
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