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| I | 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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