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 EI | A |
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Une Id e une Forme un Etre | B |
Parti de l'azur et tomb | C |
Dans un Styx bourbeux et plomb | C |
O nul oeil du Ciel ne p n tre | B |
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Un Ange imprudent voyageur | B |
Qu'a tent l'amour du difforme | C |
Au fond d'un cauchemar norme | C |
Se d battant comme un nageur | B |
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Et luttant angoisses fun bres | D |
Contre un gigantesque remous | D |
Qui va chantant comme les fous | D |
Et pirouettant dans les t n bres | D |
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Un malheureux ensorcel | E |
Dans ses t tonnements futiles | D |
Pour fuir d'un lieu plein de reptiles | D |
Cherchant la lumi re et la cl | E |
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Un damn descendant sans lampe | F |
Au bord d'un gouffre dont l'odeur | B |
Trahit l'humide profondeur | B |
D' ternels escaliers sans rampe | F |
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O veillent des monstres visqueux | D |
Dont les larges yeux de phosphore | B |
Font une nuit plus noire encore | B |
Et ne rendent visibles qu'eux | D |
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Un navire pris dans le p le | E |
Comme en un pi ge de cristal | E |
Cherchant par quel d troit fatal | E |
Il est tomb dans cette ge le | E |
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Embl mes nets tableau parfait | B |
D'une fortune irr m diable | E |
Qui donne penser que le Diable | E |
Fait toujours bien tout ce qu'il fait | G |
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II | A |
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T te t te sombre et limpide | G |
Qu'un coeur devenu son miroir | B |
Puits de V rit clair et noir | B |
O tremble une toile livide | G |
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Un phare ironique infernal | E |
Flambeau des gr ces sataniques | D |
Soulagement et gloire uniques | D |
La conscience dans le Mal | E |
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Beyond Redemption | H |
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I | A |
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An Idea a Form a Being | I |
Which left the azure sky and fell | E |
Into a leaden miry Styx | D |
That no eye in Heaven can pierce | D |
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An Angel imprudent voyager | B |
Tempted by love of the deformed | G |
In the depths of a vast nightmare | B |
Flailing his arms like a swimmer | B |
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And struggling mortal agony | J |
Against a gigantic whirlpool | E |
That sings constantly like madmen | H |
And pirouettes in the darkness | D |
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An unfortunate enchanted | G |
Outstretched hands groping futilely | E |
Looking for the light and the key | J |
To flee a place filled with reptiles | D |
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A damned soul descending endless stairs | D |
Without banisters without light | G |
On the edge of a gulf of which | K |
The odor reveals the humid depth | L |
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Where slimy monsters are watching | I |
Whose eyes wide and phosphorescent | G |
Make the darkness darker still | E |
And make visible naught but themselves | D |
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A ship caught in the polar sea | J |
As though in a snare of crystal | E |
Seeking the fatal strait through which | K |
It came into that prison | H |
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Patent symbols perfect picture | B |
Of an irremediable fate | G |
Which makes one think that the Devil | E |
Always does well whatever he does | D |
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II | A |
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Somber and limpid t te t te | J |
A heart become its own mirror | B |
Well of Truth clear and black | M |
Where a pale star flickers | D |
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A hellish ironic beacon | H |
Torch of satanical blessings | D |
Sole glory and only solace | D |
The consciousness of doing evil | E |
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Translated by William Aggeler | B |
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The Irremediable | E |
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I | A |
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A Form Idea or Essence chased | G |
Out of the azure sky and shot | G |
Into a leaden Styx where not | G |
A star can pierce the muddy waste | G |
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An angel rash explorer who | N |
Tempted by love of strange deformity | J |
Caught in a nightmare of enormity | J |
Fights like a swimmer wrestling through | N |
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A monstrous whorl of eddying spume | C |
In deathly anguish from him flinging | I |
The wave that like an idiot singing | I |
Goes pirouetting through the gloom | C |
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A wretch enchanted who to flee | J |
A den of serpents gropes about | G |
In desperation vain without | G |
Discovering a match or key | J |
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A damned soul who with no lamp | F |
Stands by a gulf whose humid scent | G |
Betrays the depth of the descent | G |
Of endless stairs without a ramp | F |
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Where slimy monsters watch the track | M |
Whose eyeballs phosphoresce and glow | E |
Only to make the night more black | M |
And nought except themselves to show | E |
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A vessel that the pole betrays | D |
Caught in a crystal trap all round | G |
And seeking by what fatal sound | G |
It ever entered such a maze | D |
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Clear emblems measuring the level | E |
Of irremediable dooms | D |
Which make us see bow well the Devil | E |
Performs whatever he presumes | D |
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II | A |
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Strange t te t te the heart its own | O |
Mirror its own confession hears | D |
Deep well where Truth is trembling shown | O |
And like a livid star appears | D |
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Ironic beacon and infernal | E |
Torch of satanic grace but still | E |
Sole glory and relief eternal | E |
Conscience that operates in Ill | E |
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Translated by Roy Campbell | E |
Charles Baudelaire
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