Ode To Marie-anne-charlotte Corday Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDD BBDEFD GGDBBD H IIJKKL BBMNNM DDDDBB| Le noir serpent sorti de sa caverne impure | A |
| A donc vu rompre enfin sous ta main ferme et s re | B |
| le venimeux tissu de ses jours abhorr s | C |
| Aux entrailles du tigre ses dents homicides | D |
| Tu vins demander et les membres livides | D |
| Et le sang des humains qu'il avait d vor s | D |
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| La vertu seule est libre Honneur de notre histoire | B |
| Notre immortel opprobre y vit avec ta gloire | B |
| Seule tu fus un homme et vengea les humains | D |
| Et nous eunuques vils troupeau l che et sans me | E |
| Nous savons r p ter quelques plaintes de femme | F |
| Mais le fer p serait nos d biles mains | D |
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| Un sc l rat de moins rampe dans cette fange | G |
| La Vertu t'applaudit De sa m le louange | G |
| Entends bell h ro ne entends l'auguste voix | D |
| O Vertu le poignard seul espoir de la terre | B |
| Est ton arme sacr e alors que le tonnerre | B |
| Laisse r gner le crime et te vend ses lois | D |
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| English | H |
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| The black serpent leaving his filthy cave | I |
| Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave | I |
| The end of its venomous existence so despised | J |
| From the tiger's guts from his homicidal teeth | K |
| You came and drew what he'd devoured from beneath | K |
| The blood and livid members of his victims sacrificed | L |
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| Virtue alone is free Honor of our history | B |
| Our immortal shame we live beside your glory | B |
| Only you were a man your knife did vengeance wreak | M |
| And we vile eunuchs cowardly and soul less cattle | N |
| We can at best complain like women prattle | N |
| But to wield a sword our hands would be too weak | M |
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| In that mud crawls one scoundrel less | D |
| Hear lovely heroine hear Virtue bless | D |
| Hear the august voice of its virile praise | D |
| Oh virtue the dagger that hope will raise | D |
| Is your sacred arm when Heaven holds its thunder | B |
| And lets crime rule while laws are cut asunder | B |
Andre Marie De Chenier
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