L'albatros (the Albatross) Poem Rhyme Scheme

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Souvent pour s'amuser les hommes d' quipage	A
Prennent des albatros vastes oiseaux des mers	B
Qui suivent indolents compagnons de voyage	A
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers	B
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peine les ont ils d pos s sur les planches	B
Que ces rois de l'azur maladroits et honteux	B
Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches	B
Comme des avirons tra ner c t d'eux	B
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Ce voyageur ail comme il est gauche et veule	C
Lui nagu re si beau qu'il est comique et laid	D
L'un agace son bec avec un br le gueule	C
L'autre mime en boitant l'infirme qui volait	D
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Le Po te est semblable au prince des nu es	B
Qui hante la temp te et se rit de l'archer	E
Exil sur le sol au milieu des hu es	B
Ses ailes de g ant l'emp chent de marcher	E
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The Albatross	B
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Often to amuse themselves the men of a crew	F
Catch albatrosses those vast sea birds	B
That indolently follow a ship	G
As it glides over the deep briny sea	B
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Scarcely have they placed them on the deck	H
Than these kings of the sky clumsy ashamed	D
Pathetically let their great white wings	B
Drag beside them like oars	B
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That winged voyager how weak and gauche he is	B
So beautiful before now comic and ugly	B
One man worries his beak with a stubby clay pipe	I
Another limps mimics the cripple who once flew	F
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The poet resembles this prince of cloud and sky	J
Who frequents the tempest and laughs at the bowman	K
When exiled on the earth the butt of hoots and jeers	B
His giant wings prevent him from walking	L
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Translated by William Aggeler	F
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The Albatross	B
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Sometimes for sport the men of loafing crews	B
Snare the great albatrosses of the deep	M
The indolent companions of their cruise	B
As through the bitter vastitudes they sweep	M
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Scarce have they fished aboard these airy kings	B
When helpless on such unaccustomed floors	B
They piteously droop their huge white wings	B
And trail them at their sides like drifting oars	B
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How comical how ugly and how meek	N
Appears this soarer of celestial snows	B
One with his pipe teases the golden beak	N
One limping mocks the cripple as he goes	B
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The Poet like this monarch of the clouds	B
Despising archers rides the storm elate	D
But stranded on the earth to jeering crowds	B
The great wings of the giant baulk his gait	D
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Translated by Roy Campbell	C
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The Albatross	B
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Sometimes to entertain themselves the men of the crew	F
Lure upon deck an unlucky albatross one of those vast	D
Birds of the sea that follow unwearied the voyage through	F
Flying in slow and elegant circles above the mast	D
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No sooner have they disentangled him from their nets	B
Than this aerial colossus shorn of his pride	D
Goes hobbling pitiably across the planks and lets	B
His great wings hang like heavy useless oars at his side	D
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How droll is the poor floundering creature how limp and weak	N
He but a moment past so lordly flying in state	D
They tease him One of them tries to stick a pipe in his beak	N
Another mimics with laughter his odd lurching gait	D
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The Poet is like that wild inheritor of the cloud	D
A rider of storms above the range of arrows and slings	B
Exiled on earth at bay amid the jeering crowd	D
He cannot walk for his unmanageable wings	B
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Translated by George Dillon	K
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Albatrosses	B
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Often our sailors for an hour of fun	K
Catch albatrosses on the after breeze	B
Through which these trail the ship from sun to sun	K
As it skims down the deep and briny seas	B
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Scarce have these birds been set upon the poop	O
Than awkward now they the sky's emperors	B
Piteous and shamed let their great white wings droop	O
Beside them like a pair of idle oars	B
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These wing d voyagers how gauche their gait	D
Once noble now how ludicrous to view	F
One sailor bums them with his pipe his mate	D
Limps mimicking these cripples who once flew	F
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Poets are like these lords of sky and cloud	D
Who ride the storm and mock the bow's taut strings	B
Exiled on earth amid a jeering crowd	D
Prisoned and palsied by their giant wings	B
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq	P
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The Albatross	B
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Often to amuse themselves the men of the crew	F
Catch those great birds of the seas the albatrosses	B
lazy companions of the voyage who follow	C
The ship that slips through bitter gulfs	B
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Hardly have they put them on the deck	H
Than these kings of the skies awkward and ashamed	D
Piteously let their great white wings	B
Draggle like oars beside them	Q
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This winged traveler how weak he becomes and slack	R
He who of late was so beautiful how comical and ugly	B
Someone teases his beak with a branding iron	S
Another mimics limping the crippled flyer	F
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The Poet is like the prince of the clouds	B
Haunting the tempest and laughing at the archer	F
Exiled on earth amongst the shouting people	C
His giant's wings hinder him from walking	L
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Translated by Geoffrey Wagner	F

Charles Baudelaire

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