Carmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEEFFGGAAGAHHIIJJAA KALAFAAMMAAAANNFFKKO OAAAAPPAAQQKK RRSS

La Gitanilla tall dragoonsA
In Andalusian afternoonsA
With ogling eye and complimentB
Smiled on you as along you wentB
Some sleepy street of old SevilleC
Twirled with a military skillC
Moustaches buttoned uniformsA
Of Spanish yellow bowed your charmsA
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Proud wicked head and hair blue blackD
Whence your mantilla half thrown backD
Discovered shoulders and bold breastE
Bohemian brown and you were dressedE
In some short skirt of gipsy redF
Of smuggled stuff thence stockings deadF
White silk exposed with many a holeG
Thro' which your plump legs roguish stoleG
A fleshly look and tiny toesA
In red morocco shoes with bowsA
Of scarlet ribbons DaintilyG
You walked by me and I did seeA
Your oblique eyes your sensuous lipH
That gnawed the rose you once did flipH
At bashful Jose's nose while loudI
Laughed the guant guards among the crowdI
And in your brazen chemise thrustJ
Heaved with the swelling of your bustJ
That bunch of white acacia bloomsA
Whiffed past my nostrils hot perfumesA
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As in a cool neveriaK
I ate an ice with M rim eA
Dark Carmencita you passed gayL
All holiday bedizen dA
A new mantilla on your headF
A crimson dress bespangled fierceA
And crescent gold hung in your earsA
Shone wrought Morisco and each shoeM
Cordovan leather spangled blueM
Glanced merriment and from large armsA
To well turned ancles all your charmsA
Blew flutterings and glitteringsA
Of satin bands and beaded stringsA
And 'round each arm's fair thigh one foldN
And graceful wrists a twisted goldN
Coiled serpents tails fixed in the headF
Convulsive jeweled glossy redF
In flowers and trimmings to the jarK
Of mandolin and low guitarK
You in the grated patioO
Danced the curled coxcombs' flirting rowO
Rang pleased applause I saw you danceA
With wily motion and glad glanceA
Voluptuous the wild romalisA
Where every movement was a kissA
Of elegance delicious woundP
In your Basque tambourine's dull soundP
Or as the ebon castanetsA
Clucked out dry time in unctuous jetsA
Saw angry Jose thro' the grateQ
Glare on us a pale face of hateQ
When some indecent colonel thereK
Presumed too lewdly for his earK
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Some still night in Seville the streetR
Candilejo two shadows meetR
Flash sabres crossed within the moonS
Clash rapidly a dead dragoonS

Madison Julius Cawein



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