Une Gravure Fantastique (a Fantastic Engraving) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGGG A FFFDACDAAADGGG F C AAAACCDDEECCCC B A BBAACCDD HHGGAA CCe spectre singulier n'a pour toute toilette | A |
Grotesquement camp sur son front de squelette | A |
Qu'un diad me affreux sentant le carnaval | B |
Sans perons sans fouet il essouffle un cheval | B |
Fant me comme lui rosse apocalyptique | C |
Qui bave des naseaux comme un pileptique | C |
Au travers de l'espace ils s'enfoncent tous deux | D |
Et foulent l'infini d'un sabot hasardeux | D |
Le cavalier prom ne un sabre qui flamboie | E |
Sur les foules sans nom que sa monture broie | F |
Et parcourt comme un prince inspectant sa maison | G |
Le cimeti re immense et froid sans horizon | G |
O gisent aux lueurs d'un soleil blanc et terne | G |
Les peuples de l'histoire ancienne et moderne | G |
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A Fantastic Print | A |
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That strange specter wears nothing more | F |
Than a diadem atrocious and tawdry | F |
Grotesquely fixed on his skeleton brow | F |
Without spurs without whip he winds a horse | D |
A phantom like himself an apocalyptic steed | A |
That foams at the nostrils like an epileptic | C |
Both of them are plunging through space | D |
And trampling on the infinite with daring feet | A |
The horseman is waving a flaming sword | A |
Over the nameless crowds who are crushed by his mount | A |
And examines like a prince inspecting his house | D |
The graveyard immense and cold with no horizon | G |
Where lie in the glimmer of a white lifeless sun | G |
The races of history ancient and modern | G |
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Translated by William Aggeler | F |
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Fantastic Engraving | C |
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A monstrous spectre carries on his forehead | A |
And at a rakish tilt grotesquely horrid | A |
A crown such as at carnivals parade | A |
Without a Whip or spur he rides a jade | A |
A phantom like apocalyptic moke | C |
Whose nostrils seem with rabid froth to smoke | C |
Across unbounded space the couple moves | D |
Spurning infinity with reckless hooves | D |
The horseman waves a sword that lights the gloom | E |
Of nameless crowds he tramples to their doom | E |
And like a prince his mansion goes inspecting | C |
The graveyard which no skyline intersecting | C |
Contains beneath a sun that's white and bleak | C |
Peoples of history modem and antique | C |
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Translated by Roy Campbell | B |
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Fantastic Print | A |
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This eerie specter wears no clothes at all | B |
A dreadful crown reeking of carnival | B |
Sits weirdly on his naked skull Without | A |
Or spurs or whip he wears his charger out | A |
A ghostly and apocalyptic nag | C |
Nose foaming like an epileptic hag | C |
The hideous pair plunge ruthlessly through space | D |
Trampling infinity at breakneck pace | D |
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The horseman's flaming sword as on they rush | H |
Fells victims that his steed has failed to crush | H |
And like a prince inspecting his domain | G |
He scans the graveyard's limitless chill plain | G |
Where in a dull white sun's exhausted light | A |
Lies every race since man emerged from night | A |
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Translated by Jacques LeClercq | C |
Charles Baudelaire
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