L'homme Et La Mer (man And The Sea) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFFG HHHH HHIH HHJHF EKLJ MLHH FHNH F H HJJH OPPO QFFQ HRRH J H HJJJ FKKF JLLJ FNFN S F JJJJ HKKH THHT JTTJ HHomme libre toujours tu ch riras la mer | A |
La mer est ton miroir tu contemples ton me | B |
Dans le d roulement infini de sa lame | C |
Et ton esprit n'est pas un gouffre moins amer | D |
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Tu te plais plonger au sein de ton image | E |
Tu l'embrasses des yeux et des bras et ton coeur | F |
Se distrait quelquefois de sa propre rumeur | F |
Au bruit de cette plainte indomptable et sauvage | G |
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Vous tes tous les deux t n breux et discrets | H |
Homme nul n'a sond le fond de tes ab mes | H |
mer nul ne conna t tes richesses intimes | H |
Tant vous tes jaloux de garder vos secrets | H |
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Et cependant voil des si cles innombrables | H |
Que vous vous combattez sans piti ni remords | H |
Tellement vous aimez le carnage et la mort | I |
lutteurs ternels fr res implacables | H |
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Man and the Sea | H |
Free man you will always cherish the sea | H |
The sea is your mirror you contemplate your soul | J |
In the infinite unrolling of its billows | H |
Your mind is an abyss that is no less bitter | F |
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You like to plunge into the bosom of your image | E |
You embrace it with eyes and arms and your heart | K |
Is distracted at times from its own clamoring | L |
By the sound of this plaint wild and untamable | J |
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Both of you are gloomy and reticent | M |
Man no one has sounded the depths of your being | L |
O Sea no person knows your most hidden riches | H |
So zealously do you keep your secrets | H |
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Yet for countless ages you have fought each other | F |
Without pity without remorse | H |
So fiercely do you love carnage and death | N |
O eternal fighters implacable brothers | H |
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Translated by William Aggeler | F |
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Man and the Sea | H |
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Free man you'll always love the sea for this | H |
That it's a mirror where you see your soul | J |
In its eternal waves that chafe and roll | J |
Nor is your soul less bitter an abyss | H |
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in your reflected image there to merge | O |
You love to dive its eyes and limbs to match | P |
Sometimes your heart forgets its own to catch | P |
The rhythm of that wild and tameless dirge | O |
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The two of you are shadowy deep and wide | Q |
Man None has ever plummeted your floor | F |
Sea None has ever known what wealth you store | F |
Both are so jealous of the things you hide | Q |
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Yet age on age is ended or begins | H |
While you without remorse or pity fight | R |
So much in death and carnage you delight | R |
Eternal wrestlers Unrelenting twins | H |
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Translated by Roy Campbell | J |
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Man and the Sea | H |
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Free man you shall forever cherish the vast sea | H |
The sea that image where you contemplate your soul | J |
As everlastingly its mighty waves unroll | J |
Your mind a yawning gulf seasoned as bitterly | J |
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You love to plunge into your image to the core | F |
Embracing it with eyes and arms your very heart | K |
Sometimes finds a distraction from its urgent smart | K |
In the wild sea's untamable and plaintive roar | F |
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Both of you live in darkness and in mystery | J |
Man who has ever plumbed the far depths of your being | L |
O Sea who knows your private hidden riches seeing | L |
How strange the secrets you preserve so jealously | J |
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And yet for countless ages you have fought each other | F |
With hands unsparing and with unforbearing breath | N |
Each an eternal foe to his relentless brother | F |
So avid are you both of slaughter and of death | N |
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq | S |
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L'Homme et le Mer | F |
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love Ocean always Man ye both are free | J |
the Sea thy mirror thou canst find thy soul | J |
in the unfurling billows' surging roll | J |
they mind's abyss is bitter as the sea | J |
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thou doest rejoice thy mirrored face to pierce | H |
plunging and clasp with eyes and arms thy heart | K |
at its own mutter oft forgets to start | K |
lulled by that plaint indomitably fierce | H |
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discreet ye both are both are taciturn | T |
Man none has measured all thy dark abyss | H |
none Sea knows where thy hoarded treasure is | H |
so jealously your secrets ye inurn | T |
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and yet for countless ages trucelessly | J |
o ruthless warriors ye have fought and striven | T |
brothers by lust for death and carnage driven | T |
twin wrestlers gripped for all eternity | J |
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Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | H |
Charles Baudelaire
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