Parlez-vous Francais? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFFGCGHGG FCIJEEEKJEJJLMCaesar 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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