Le Flambeau Vivant (the Living Torch) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGF GEE H IFJB KECH BLE FMG N H JIJI CECE BBI FFI O I PBPB CHCH NND QQD B| Ils marchent devant moi ces Yeux pleins de lumi res | A |
| Qu'un Ange tr s savant a sans doute aimant s | B |
| Ils marchent ces divins fr res qui sont mes fr res | A |
| Secouant dans mes yeux leurs feux diamant s | B |
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| Me sauvant de tout pi ge et de tout p ch grave | C |
| Ils conduisent mes pas dans la route du Beau | D |
| Ils sont mes serviteurs et je suis leur esclave | C |
| Tout mon tre ob it ce vivant flambeau | E |
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| Charmants Yeux vous brillez de la clart mystique | F |
| Qu'ont les cierges br lant en plein jour le soleil | G |
| Rougit mais n' teint pas leur flamme fantastique | F |
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| Ils c l brent la Mort vous chantez le R veil | G |
| Vous marchez en chantant le r veil de mon me | E |
| Astres dont nul soleil ne peut fl trir la flamme | E |
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| The Living Torch | H |
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| They walk in front of me those eyes aglow with light | I |
| Which a learned Angel has rendered magnetic | F |
| They walk divine brothers who are my brothers too | J |
| Casting into my eyes diamond scintillations | B |
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| They save me from all snares and from all grievous sin | K |
| They guide my steps along the pathway of Beauty | E |
| They are my servitors I am their humble slave | C |
| My whole being obeys this living torch | H |
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| Bewitching eyes you shine like mystical candles | B |
| That burn in broad daylight the sun | L |
| Reddens but does not quench their eerie flame | E |
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| While they celebrate Death you sing the Awakening | F |
| You walk singing the awakening of my soul | M |
| Bright stars whose flame no sun can pale | G |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | N |
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| The Living Torch | H |
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| Those lit eyes go before me in full view | J |
| Some cunning angel magnetised their light | I |
| Heavenly twins yet my own brothers too | J |
| Shaking their diamond blaze into my sight | I |
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| My steps from every trap or sin to save | C |
| In the strait road of Beauty they conduct me | E |
| They are my servants and I am their slave | C |
| Obedient in whatever they instruct me | E |
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| Delightful eyes you burn with mystic rays | B |
| Like candles in broad day red suns may blaze | B |
| But cannot quench their still fantastic light | I |
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| Those candles burn for death but you for waking | F |
| You sing the dawn that in my soul is breaking | F |
| Stars which no sun could ever put to flight | I |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | O |
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| Le Flambeau vivant | I |
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| they march before me filled with light divine | P |
| those eyes turned magnets by some angel wise | B |
| they lead my Heavenly Twins good brothers mine | P |
| whose jewelled fires hold my gazing eyes | B |
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| they guard from every sin and error grave | C |
| they show my feet the path to Beauty's porch | H |
| they are my servitors and I their slave | C |
| wholly obedient to their heavenly torch | H |
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| enchanted eyes ye have the mystic ray | N |
| of tapers lit at noon the fire of day | N |
| reddens but quenches not their eery glow | D |
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| 'tis Death they sing while ye extol the Morn | Q |
| ye point the way and chant a soul reborn | Q |
| stars that no sun can pale nor overthrow | D |
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| Translated by Lewis Piaget Shanks | B |
Charles Baudelaire
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