L'irrémédiable (the Irremediable) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB BCCB DDDD EDDE FBBF DBBD EEEE BEEG A GBBG EDDE H A IEDD BGBB JEHD GEJD DGKL IGED JEKH BGED A JBMD HDDE B E A GGGG NJJN CIIC JGGJ FGGF MEME DGGD EDED A ODOD EEEE E

IA
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Une Id e une Forme un EtreB
Parti de l'azur et tombC
Dans un Styx bourbeux et plombC
O nul oeil du Ciel ne p n treB
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Un Ange imprudent voyageurB
Qu'a tent l'amour du difformeC
Au fond d'un cauchemar normeC
Se d battant comme un nageurB
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Et luttant angoisses fun bresD
Contre un gigantesque remousD
Qui va chantant comme les fousD
Et pirouettant dans les t n bresD
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Un malheureux ensorcelE
Dans ses t tonnements futilesD
Pour fuir d'un lieu plein de reptilesD
Cherchant la lumi re et la clE
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Un damn descendant sans lampeF
Au bord d'un gouffre dont l'odeurB
Trahit l'humide profondeurB
D' ternels escaliers sans rampeF
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O veillent des monstres visqueuxD
Dont les larges yeux de phosphoreB
Font une nuit plus noire encoreB
Et ne rendent visibles qu'euxD
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Un navire pris dans le p leE
Comme en un pi ge de cristalE
Cherchant par quel d troit fatalE
Il est tomb dans cette ge leE
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Embl mes nets tableau parfaitB
D'une fortune irr m diableE
Qui donne penser que le DiableE
Fait toujours bien tout ce qu'il faitG
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IIA
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T te t te sombre et limpideG
Qu'un coeur devenu son miroirB
Puits de V rit clair et noirB
O tremble une toile livideG
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Un phare ironique infernalE
Flambeau des gr ces sataniquesD
Soulagement et gloire uniquesD
La conscience dans le MalE
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Beyond RedemptionH
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IA
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An Idea a Form a BeingI
Which left the azure sky and fellE
Into a leaden miry StyxD
That no eye in Heaven can pierceD
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An Angel imprudent voyagerB
Tempted by love of the deformedG
In the depths of a vast nightmareB
Flailing his arms like a swimmerB
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And struggling mortal agonyJ
Against a gigantic whirlpoolE
That sings constantly like madmenH
And pirouettes in the darknessD
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An unfortunate enchantedG
Outstretched hands groping futilelyE
Looking for the light and the keyJ
To flee a place filled with reptilesD
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A damned soul descending endless stairsD
Without banisters without lightG
On the edge of a gulf of whichK
The odor reveals the humid depthL
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Where slimy monsters are watchingI
Whose eyes wide and phosphorescentG
Make the darkness darker stillE
And make visible naught but themselvesD
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A ship caught in the polar seaJ
As though in a snare of crystalE
Seeking the fatal strait through whichK
It came into that prisonH
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Patent symbols perfect pictureB
Of an irremediable fateG
Which makes one think that the DevilE
Always does well whatever he doesD
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IIA
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Somber and limpid t te t teJ
A heart become its own mirrorB
Well of Truth clear and blackM
Where a pale star flickersD
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A hellish ironic beaconH
Torch of satanical blessingsD
Sole glory and only solaceD
The consciousness of doing evilE
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Translated by William AggelerB
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The IrremediableE
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IA
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A Form Idea or Essence chasedG
Out of the azure sky and shotG
Into a leaden Styx where notG
A star can pierce the muddy wasteG
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An angel rash explorer whoN
Tempted by love of strange deformityJ
Caught in a nightmare of enormityJ
Fights like a swimmer wrestling throughN
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A monstrous whorl of eddying spumeC
In deathly anguish from him flingingI
The wave that like an idiot singingI
Goes pirouetting through the gloomC
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A wretch enchanted who to fleeJ
A den of serpents gropes aboutG
In desperation vain withoutG
Discovering a match or keyJ
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A damned soul who with no lampF
Stands by a gulf whose humid scentG
Betrays the depth of the descentG
Of endless stairs without a rampF
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Where slimy monsters watch the trackM
Whose eyeballs phosphoresce and glowE
Only to make the night more blackM
And nought except themselves to showE
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A vessel that the pole betraysD
Caught in a crystal trap all roundG
And seeking by what fatal soundG
It ever entered such a mazeD
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Clear emblems measuring the levelE
Of irremediable doomsD
Which make us see bow well the DevilE
Performs whatever he presumesD
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IIA
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Strange t te t te the heart its ownO
Mirror its own confession hearsD
Deep well where Truth is trembling shownO
And like a livid star appearsD
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Ironic beacon and infernalE
Torch of satanic grace but stillE
Sole glory and relief eternalE
Conscience that operates in IllE
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Translated by Roy CampbellE

Charles Baudelaire



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