Parlez-vous Francais? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGCGHGG FCIJEEEKJEJJLM| Caesar the amplifier voice announces | A |
| Crime and reparation In the barber shop | B |
| Recumbent men attend while absently | C |
| The barber doffs the naked face with cream | D |
| Caesar proposes Caesar promises | E |
| Pride justice and the sun | F |
| Brilliant and strong on everyone | F |
| Speeding one hundred miles an hour across the land | G |
| Caesar declares the will The barber firmly | C |
| Planes the stubble with a steady hand | G |
| While all in barber chairs reclining | H |
| In wet white faces fully understand | G |
| Good and evil who is Gentile weakness and command | G |
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| And now who enters quietly Who is this one | F |
| Shy pale and quite abstracted Who is he | C |
| It is the writer merely with a three day beard | I |
| His tiredness not evident He wears no tie | J |
| And now he hears his enemy and trembles | E |
| Resolving speaks Ecoutez La plupart des hommes | E |
| Vivent des vies de desespoir silenciuex | E |
| Victimes des intentions innombrables Et ca | K |
| Cet homme sait bien Les mots de cette voix sont | J |
| Des songes et des mensonges Il prend choix | E |
| Il prend la volonte il porte la fin d'ete | J |
| La guerre Ecoutez moi Il porte la mort | J |
| He stands there speaking and they laugh to hear | L |
| Rage and excitement from the foreigner | M |
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