L'amour Du Mensonge Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDE FGFG HBHB IJIJ KLML NAOA| After Charles Baudelaire | A |
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| When I behold thee O my indolent love | B |
| To the sound of ringing brazen melodies | C |
| Through garish halls harmoniously move | D |
| Scattering a scornful light from languid eyes | E |
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| When I see smitten by the blazing lights | F |
| Thy pale front beauteous in its bloodless glow | G |
| As the faint fires that deck the Northern nights | F |
| And eyes that draw me wheresoever I go | G |
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| I say She is fair too coldly strange for speech | H |
| A crown of memories her calm brow above | B |
| Shines and her heart is like a bruised red peach | H |
| Ripe as her body for intelligent love | B |
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| Art thou late fruit of spicy savor and scent | I |
| A funeral vase awaiting tearful showers | J |
| An Eastern odor waste and oasis blent | I |
| A silken cushion or a bank of flowers | J |
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| I know there are eyes of melancholy sheen | K |
| To which no passionate secrets e'er were given | L |
| Shrines where no god or saint has ever been | M |
| As deep and empty as the vault of Heaven | L |
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| But what care I if this be all pretense | N |
| 'T will serve a heart that seeks for truth no more | A |
| All one thy folly or indifference | O |
| Hail lovely mask thy beauty I adore | A |
John Hay
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