Carmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCAA DDEEFFGGAAGAHHIIJJAA KALAFAAMMAAAANNFFKKO OAAAAPPAAQQKK RRSSLa Gitanilla tall dragoons | A |
In Andalusian afternoons | A |
With ogling eye and compliment | B |
Smiled on you as along you went | B |
Some sleepy street of old Seville | C |
Twirled with a military skill | C |
Moustaches buttoned uniforms | A |
Of Spanish yellow bowed your charms | A |
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Proud wicked head and hair blue black | D |
Whence your mantilla half thrown back | D |
Discovered shoulders and bold breast | E |
Bohemian brown and you were dressed | E |
In some short skirt of gipsy red | F |
Of smuggled stuff thence stockings dead | F |
White silk exposed with many a hole | G |
Thro' which your plump legs roguish stole | G |
A fleshly look and tiny toes | A |
In red morocco shoes with bows | A |
Of scarlet ribbons Daintily | G |
You walked by me and I did see | A |
Your oblique eyes your sensuous lip | H |
That gnawed the rose you once did flip | H |
At bashful Jose's nose while loud | I |
Laughed the guant guards among the crowd | I |
And in your brazen chemise thrust | J |
Heaved with the swelling of your bust | J |
That bunch of white acacia blooms | A |
Whiffed past my nostrils hot perfumes | A |
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As in a cool neveria | K |
I ate an ice with M rim e | A |
Dark Carmencita you passed gay | L |
All holiday bedizen d | A |
A new mantilla on your head | F |
A crimson dress bespangled fierce | A |
And crescent gold hung in your ears | A |
Shone wrought Morisco and each shoe | M |
Cordovan leather spangled blue | M |
Glanced merriment and from large arms | A |
To well turned ancles all your charms | A |
Blew flutterings and glitterings | A |
Of satin bands and beaded strings | A |
And 'round each arm's fair thigh one fold | N |
And graceful wrists a twisted gold | N |
Coiled serpents tails fixed in the head | F |
Convulsive jeweled glossy red | F |
In flowers and trimmings to the jar | K |
Of mandolin and low guitar | K |
You in the grated patio | O |
Danced the curled coxcombs' flirting row | O |
Rang pleased applause I saw you dance | A |
With wily motion and glad glance | A |
Voluptuous the wild romalis | A |
Where every movement was a kiss | A |
Of elegance delicious wound | P |
In your Basque tambourine's dull sound | P |
Or as the ebon castanets | A |
Clucked out dry time in unctuous jets | A |
Saw angry Jose thro' the grate | Q |
Glare on us a pale face of hate | Q |
When some indecent colonel there | K |
Presumed too lewdly for his ear | K |
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Some still night in Seville the street | R |
Candilejo two shadows meet | R |
Flash sabres crossed within the moon | S |
Clash rapidly a dead dragoon | S |
Madison Julius Cawein
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