Le Tonneau De La Haine (the Cask Of Hate) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BBBB CDC DEE F BGBH BCBD CID JKE D K KLKL BCBC MDM DEE E| La Haine est le tonneau des p les Dana des | A |
| La Vengeance perdue aux bras rouges et forts | B |
| beau pr cipiter dans ses t n bres vides | B |
| De grands seaux pleins du sang et des larmes des morts | B |
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| Le D mon fait des trous secrets ces ab mes | B |
| Par o fuiraient mille ans de sueurs et d'efforts | B |
| Quand m me elle saurait ranimer ses victimes | B |
| Et pour les pressurer ressusciter leurs corps | B |
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| La Haine est un ivrogne au fond d'une taverne | C |
| Qui sent toujours la soif na tre de la liqueur | D |
| Et se multiplier comme l'hydre de Lerne | C |
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| Mais les buveurs heureux connaissent leur vainqueur | D |
| Et la Haine est vou e ce sort lamentable | E |
| De ne pouvoir jamais s'endormir sous la table | E |
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| Hatred's Cask | F |
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| Hatred is the cask of the pale Danaides | B |
| Bewildered Vengeance with arms red and strong | G |
| Vainly pours into its empty darkness | B |
| Great pailfuls of the blood and the tears of the dead | H |
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| The Demon makes secret holes in this abyss | B |
| Whence would escape a thousand years of sweat and strain | C |
| Even if she could revive her victims | B |
| Could restore their bodies to squeeze them dry once more | D |
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| Hatred is a drunkard in a tavern | C |
| Who feels his thirst grow greater with each drink | I |
| And multiply itself like the Lernaean hydra | D |
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| While fortunate drinkers know they can be conquered | J |
| Hatred is condemned to this lamentable fate | K |
| That she can never fall asleep beneath the table | E |
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| Translated by William Aggeler | D |
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| The Cask of Hate | K |
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| The Cask of the pale Danaids is Hate | K |
| Vainly Revenge with red strong arms employed | L |
| Precipitates her buckets in a spate | K |
| Of blood and tears to feed the empty void | L |
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| The Fiend bores secret holes to these abysms | B |
| By which a thousand years of sweat and strain | C |
| Escape though she'd revive their organisms | B |
| In order just to bleed them once again | C |
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| Hate is a drunkard in a tavern staying | M |
| Who feels his thirst born of its very cure | D |
| Like Lerna's hydra multiplied by slaying | M |
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| Gay drinkers of their conqueror are sure | D |
| And Hate is doomed to a sad fate unable | E |
| Ever to fall and snore beneath the table | E |
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| Translated by Roy Campbell | E |
Charles Baudelaire
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