Réversibilité (reversability) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAA BCCBB ADDAA ADDDA ADDAA D EAAAE DCAAD FADDF ADDBA DGHAD F D EIEIE DCDCD ACACA JBJBJ DFDFD C B KFFKK DAADD ADDAA ALL A DFDFD B D MAAMM DCCDD FAAFF ABBAA AFFAA NAnge plein de gaiet connaissez vous l'angoisse | A |
La honte les remords les sanglots les ennuis | A |
Et les vagues terreurs de ces affreuses nuits | A |
Qui compriment le coeur comme un papier qu'on froisse | A |
Ange plein de gaiet connaissez vous l'angoisse | A |
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Ange plein de bont connaissez vous la haine | B |
Les poings crisp s dans l'ombre et les larmes de fiel | C |
Quand la Vengeance bat son infernal rappel | C |
Et de nos facult s se fait le capitaine | B |
Ange plein de bont connaissez vous la haine | B |
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Ange plein de sant connaissez vous les Fi vres | A |
Qui le long des grands murs de l'hospice blafard | D |
Comme des exil s s'en vont d'un pied tra nard | D |
Cherchant le soleil rare et remuant les l vres | A |
Ange plein de sant connaissez vous les Fi vres | A |
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Ange plein de beaut connaissez vous les rides | A |
Et la peur de vieillir et ce hideux tourment | D |
De lire la secr te horreur du d vouement | D |
Dans des yeux o longtemps burent nos yeux avide | D |
Ange plein de beaut connaissez vous les rides | A |
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Ange plein de bonheur de joie et de lumi res | A |
David mourant aurait demand la sant | D |
Aux manations de ton corps enchant | D |
Mais de toi je n'implore ange que tes pri res | A |
Ange plein de bonheur de joie et de lumi res | A |
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Reversibility | D |
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Angel full of gaiety do you know anguish | E |
Shame remorse sobs vexations | A |
And the vague terrors of those frightful nights | A |
That compress the heart like a paper one crumples | A |
Angel full of gaiety do you know anguish | E |
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Angel full of kindness do you know hatred | D |
The clenched fists in the darkness and the tears of gall | C |
When Vengeance beats out his hellish call to arms | A |
And makes himself the captain of our faculties | A |
Angel full of kindness do you know hatred | D |
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Angel full of health do you know Fever | F |
Walking like an exile moving with dragging steps | A |
Along the high wan walls of the charity ward | D |
And with muttering lips seeking the rare sunlight | D |
Angel full of health do you know Fever | F |
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Angel full of beauty do you know wrinkles | A |
The fear of growing old and the hideous torment | D |
Of reading in the eyes of her he once adored | D |
Horror at seeing love turning to devotion | B |
Angel full of beauty do you know wrinkles | A |
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Angel full of happiness of joy and of light | D |
David on his death bed would have appealed for health | G |
To the emanations of your enchanted flesh | H |
But of you angel I beg only prayers | A |
Angel full of happiness of joy and of light | D |
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Translated by William Aggeler | F |
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Reversibility | D |
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Angel of gaiety have you known anguish | E |
Shame and remorse tears boredom and dismay | I |
Vague horrors of the nights in which we languish | E |
Which crumple hearts like papers thrown away | I |
Angel of gaiety have you known anguish | E |
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Angel of kindness have you met with hate | D |
Fists clenched in gloom eyes running tears of gall | C |
When Vengeance beats his drum to subjugate | D |
Our faculties the captain of them all | C |
Angel of kindness have you met with hate | D |
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Angel of health have you beheld the Fevers | A |
Across pale walls of wards they limp and stumble | C |
Like exiles wan with agues chills and shivers | A |
Seeking the scanty sun with lips that mumble | C |
Angel of health have you beheld the Fevers | A |
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Angel of beauty do you know Old Age | J |
The fear of wrinkles and the dire emotion | B |
In eyes we've pierced too long as on a page | J |
To read the secret horror of devotion | B |
Angel of beauty do you know Old Age | J |
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Angel of goodness radiance and delight | D |
The dying David would have begged to share | F |
The emanations of your body bright | D |
But all I wish to ask of you is prayer | F |
Angel of goodness radiance and delight | D |
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Translated by Roy Campbell | C |
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The Angelic One | B |
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Spirit of happiness hast thou heard tell of woe | K |
Hast thou heard tell of anguish and remorse and care | F |
Of those long nights when in the black fist of Despair | F |
The heart is crumpled up like paper Dost thou know | K |
Spirit of happiness Hast thou heard tell of woe | K |
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Spirit of kindliness hast thou heard tell of hate | D |
The clenched hands in the darkness the silent bitter tears | A |
With Vengeance beating in the arteries of our ears | A |
Its dogged tom tom irresistible as fate | D |
Spirit of kindliness hast thou heard tell of hate | D |
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Spirit of health hast thou heard whisper of Disease | A |
Whose pallid children in the courtyard gray with soot | D |
Of the bleak hospital go dragging a slow foot | D |
To find a patch of sunlight Host thou heard of these | A |
Spirit of health hast thou heard whisper of Disease | A |
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Spirit of beauty hast thou heard of ugliness | A |
Of the long secret torment of growing old above | L |
All else the pain of reading in the eyes we love | L |
A wordless horror even while the lips say 'yes ' | - |
Spirit of beauty hast thou heard of ugliness | A |
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Spirit of joy spirit of beauty spirit of light | D |
David grown old would have thought nothing to implore | F |
Thy healing touch thy warm young presence in the night | D |
But spirit I only ask of thee thy prayers no more | F |
Spirit of joy spirit of beauty spirit of light | D |
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Translated by George Dillon | B |
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Reversibility | D |
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Angel teeming with gaiety do you know grief | M |
Anguish remorse and shame their ravages and blights | A |
And the vague terrors of those panic stricken nights | A |
Which squeeze the heartstrings dry as a sere crumpled leaf | M |
Angel teeming with gaiety do you know grief | M |
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Angel teeming with kindliness do you know hate | D |
Fists tight clenched in the shadows scalding tears of gall | C |
When Vengeance roars with his infernal battle call | C |
Making himself the captain of our acts and fate | D |
Angel teeming with kindliness do you know hate | D |
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Angel teeming with healthfulness do you know Fever | F |
Who like an exile lopes with dragging step towards | A |
The wan stark walls of hospitals and public wards | A |
Mumbling seeking rare sunlight for a brace or lever | F |
Angel teeming with healthfulness do you know Fever | F |
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Angel teeming with loveliness do you know wrinkles | A |
The fear of growing old and like a poisoned potion | B |
The dread of seeing love turn into fond devotion | B |
In eyes adored once blue and pure as periwinkles | A |
Angel teeming with loveliness do you know wrinkles | A |
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Angel teeming with happy blithe luminous airs | A |
David upon his deathbed would have craved for power | F |
From the suave emanations of your body's flower | F |
But I angel beseech of you only your prayers | A |
Angel teeming with happy blithe luminous airs | A |
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq | N |
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