Une Gravure Fantastique (a Fantastic Engraving) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGGG A FFFDACDAAADGGG F C AAAACCDDEECCCC B A BBAACCDD HHGGAA C

Ce spectre singulier n'a pour toute toiletteA
Grotesquement camp sur son front de squeletteA
Qu'un diad me affreux sentant le carnavalB
Sans perons sans fouet il essouffle un chevalB
Fant me comme lui rosse apocalyptiqueC
Qui bave des naseaux comme un pileptiqueC
Au travers de l'espace ils s'enfoncent tous deuxD
Et foulent l'infini d'un sabot hasardeuxD
Le cavalier prom ne un sabre qui flamboieE
Sur les foules sans nom que sa monture broieF
Et parcourt comme un prince inspectant sa maisonG
Le cimeti re immense et froid sans horizonG
O gisent aux lueurs d'un soleil blanc et terneG
Les peuples de l'histoire ancienne et moderneG
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A Fantastic PrintA
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That strange specter wears nothing moreF
Than a diadem atrocious and tawdryF
Grotesquely fixed on his skeleton browF
Without spurs without whip he winds a horseD
A phantom like himself an apocalyptic steedA
That foams at the nostrils like an epilepticC
Both of them are plunging through spaceD
And trampling on the infinite with daring feetA
The horseman is waving a flaming swordA
Over the nameless crowds who are crushed by his mountA
And examines like a prince inspecting his houseD
The graveyard immense and cold with no horizonG
Where lie in the glimmer of a white lifeless sunG
The races of history ancient and modernG
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Translated by William AggelerF
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Fantastic EngravingC
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A monstrous spectre carries on his foreheadA
And at a rakish tilt grotesquely horridA
A crown such as at carnivals paradeA
Without a Whip or spur he rides a jadeA
A phantom like apocalyptic mokeC
Whose nostrils seem with rabid froth to smokeC
Across unbounded space the couple movesD
Spurning infinity with reckless hoovesD
The horseman waves a sword that lights the gloomE
Of nameless crowds he tramples to their doomE
And like a prince his mansion goes inspectingC
The graveyard which no skyline intersectingC
Contains beneath a sun that's white and bleakC
Peoples of history modem and antiqueC
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Translated by Roy CampbellB
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Fantastic PrintA
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This eerie specter wears no clothes at allB
A dreadful crown reeking of carnivalB
Sits weirdly on his naked skull WithoutA
Or spurs or whip he wears his charger outA
A ghostly and apocalyptic nagC
Nose foaming like an epileptic hagC
The hideous pair plunge ruthlessly through spaceD
Trampling infinity at breakneck paceD
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The horseman's flaming sword as on they rushH
Fells victims that his steed has failed to crushH
And like a prince inspecting his domainG
He scans the graveyard's limitless chill plainG
Where in a dull white sun's exhausted lightA
Lies every race since man emerged from nightA
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Translated by Jacques LeClercqC

Charles Baudelaire



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