The Offended Moon - (twelve Translations From Charles Baudelaire) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA ABBA CDD ECE| O moon O lamp of hill and secret dale | A |
| Thou whom our fathers ages out of mind | B |
| Worshipped in thy blue heaven whilst behind | B |
| Thy stars streamed after thee a glittering trail | A |
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| Dost see the poet weary eyed and pale | A |
| Or lovers on their happy beds reclined | B |
| Showing white teeth in sleep or vipers twined | B |
| 'Neath the dry sward or in a golden veil | A |
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| Stealest thou with faint footfall o'er the grass | C |
| As of old to kiss from twilight unto dawn | D |
| The faded charms of thine Endymion | D |
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| O child of this sick century I see | E |
| Thy grey haired mother leering in her glass | C |
| And plastering the breast that suckled thee | E |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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