L'horloge (the Clock) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCA DEEF BEEB CEEC BABB BGGB H BCBB DECD BABI CECB CACA EJE C H CBCB BEBE BAB CKCK AEAE ABA A H CCCC BLB CBC KMKM NDND BBB L| Horloge dieu sinistre effrayant impassible | A |
| Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit Souviens toi | B |
| Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d'effroi | C |
| Se planteront bient t comme dans une cible | A |
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| Le Plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l'horizon | D |
| Ainsi qu'une sylphide au fond de la coulisse | E |
| Chaque instant te d vore un morceau du d lice | E |
| chaque homme accord pour toute sa saison | F |
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| Trois mille six cents fois par heure la Seconde | B |
| Chuchote Souviens toi Rapide avec sa voix | E |
| D'insecte Maintenant dit Je suis Autrefois | E |
| Et j'ai pomp ta vie avec ma trompe immonde | B |
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| Remember Souviens toi prodigue Esto memor | C |
| Mon gosier de m tal parle toutes les langues | E |
| Les minutes mortel fol tre sont des gangues | E |
| Qu'il ne faut pas l cher sans en extraire l'or | C |
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| Souviens toi que le Temps est un joueur avide | B |
| Qui gagne sans tricher tout coup c'est la loi | A |
| Le jour d cro t la nuit augmente Souviens toi | B |
| Le gouffre a toujours soif la clepsydre se vide | B |
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| Tant t sonnera l'heure o le divin Hasard | B |
| O l'auguste Vertu ton pouse encor vierge | G |
| O le Repentir m me oh la derni re auberge | G |
| O tout te dira Meurs vieux l che il est trop tard | B |
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| The Clock | H |
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| Impassive clock Terrifying sinister god | B |
| Whose finger threatens us and says 'Remember | C |
| The quivering Sorrows will soon be shot | B |
| Into your fearful heart as into a target | B |
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| Nebulous pleasure will flee toward the horizon | D |
| Like an actress who disappears into the wings | E |
| Every instant devours a piece of the pleasure | C |
| Granted to every man for his entire season | D |
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| Three thousand six hundred times an hour Second | B |
| Whispers Remember Immediately | A |
| With his insect voice Now says I am the Past | B |
| And I have sucked out your life with my filthy trunk | I |
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| Remember Souviens toi spendthrift Esto memor | C |
| My metal throat can speak all languages | E |
| Minutes blithesome mortal are bits of ore | C |
| That you must not release without extracting the gold | B |
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| Remember Time is a greedy player | C |
| Who wins without cheating every round It's the law | A |
| The daylight wanes the night deepens remember | C |
| The abyss thirsts always the water clock runs low | A |
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| Soon will sound the hour when divine Chance | E |
| When august Virtue your still virgin wife | J |
| When even Repentance the very last of inns | E |
| When all will say Die old coward it is too late ' | - |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | C |
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| The Clock | H |
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| The Clock calm evil god that makes us shiver | C |
| With threatening finger warns us each apart | B |
| 'Remember Soon the vibrant woes will quiver | C |
| Like arrows in a target in your heart | B |
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| To the horizon Pleasure will take flight | B |
| As flits a vaporous sylphide to the wings | E |
| Each instant gnaws a crumb of the delight | B |
| That for his season every mortal brings | E |
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| Three thousand times and more each hour the second | B |
| Whispers 'Remember ' Like an insect shrill | A |
| The present chirps 'With Nevermore I'm reckoned | B |
| I've pumped your lifeblood with my loathsome bill ' | - |
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| Remember Souviens toi I Esto Memor | C |
| My brazen windpipe speaks in every tongue | K |
| Each moment foolish mortal is like ore | C |
| From which the precious metal must be wrung | K |
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| Remember Time the gamester it's the law | A |
| Wins always without cheating Daylight wanes | E |
| Night deepens The abyss with gulfy maw | A |
| Thirsts on unsated while the hour glass drains | E |
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| Sooner or later now the time must be | A |
| When Hazard Virtue your still virgin mate | B |
| Repentance your last refuge or all three | A |
| Will tell you 'Die old Coward It's too late '' | - |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | A |
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| The Clock | H |
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| Terrible Clock God without mercy mighty Power | C |
| Saying all day 'Remember Remember and beware | C |
| There is no arrow of pain but in a tiny hour | C |
| Will make thy heart its target and stick and vibrate there | C |
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| 'Toward the horizon all too soon and out of sight | B |
| Vaporous Pleasure like a sylphide floats away | L |
| Each instant swallows up one crumb of that delight | B |
| Accorded to each man for all his mortal day ' | - |
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| The Second says three thousand six hundred times an hour | C |
| 'Remember Look the wing d insect Now doth sit | B |
| Upon thy vein and shrilleth 'I am Nevermore | C |
| And I have sucked thy blood I am flying away with it ' | - |
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| 'Remember Souviens toi Esto memor no tongue | K |
| My metal larynx does not speak O frivolous man | M |
| These minutes rich in gold slide past thou art not young | K |
| Remember and wash well the gravel in the pan | M |
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| 'Remember Time the player that need not cheat to win | N |
| Makes a strong adversary Is thy game begun | D |
| Thy game is lost Day wanes night waxes Look within | N |
| The gulf it still is thirsty The sands are all but run | D |
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| 'Soon soon the hour will strike when Hazard he that showed | B |
| A god like face when Virtue thy bride but still intact | B |
| When even Repentance oh last inn along the road | B |
| Will say to thee 'Die coward It is too late to act '' | - |
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| Translated by Edna St Vincent Millay | L |
Charles Baudelaire
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