Victor Hugo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCCDDBEFFEGHGH GIGIGJKKJLMLNNOPL QRRQSTTSUJUVVJ UWXWJYJYAZAZ| Heart of France for a hundred years | A |
| Passionate sensitive proud and strong | B |
| Quick to throb with her hopes and fears | A |
| Fierce to flame with her sense of wrong | B |
| You who hailed with a morning song | B |
| Dream light gilding a throne of old | C |
| You who turned when the dream grew cold | C |
| Singing still to the light that shone | D |
| Pure from Liberty's ancient throne | D |
| Over the human throng | B |
| You who dared in the dark eclipse | E |
| When the pygmy heir of a giant name | F |
| Dimmed the face of the land with shame | F |
| Speak the truth with indignant lips | E |
| Call him little whom men called great | G |
| Scoff at him scorn him deny him | H |
| Point to the blood on his robe of state | G |
| Fling back his bribes and defy him | H |
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| You who fronted the waves of fate | G |
| As you faced the sea from your island home | I |
| Exiled yet with a soul elate | G |
| Sending songs o'er the rolling foam | I |
| Bidding the heart of man to wait | G |
| For the day when all should see | J |
| Floods of wrath from the frowning skies | K |
| Fall on an Empire founded in lies | K |
| And France again be free | J |
| You who came in the Terrible Year | L |
| Swiftly back to your broken land | M |
| Now to your heart a thousand times more dear | L |
| Prayed for her sung to her fought for her | N |
| Patiently fervently wrought for her | N |
| Till once again | O |
| After the storm of fear and pain | P |
| High in the heavens the star of France stood clear | L |
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| You who knew that a man must take | Q |
| Good and ill with a steadfast soul | R |
| Holding fast while the billows roll | R |
| Over his head to the things that make | Q |
| Life worth living for great and small | S |
| Honour and pity and truth | T |
| The heart and the hope of youth | T |
| And the good God over all | S |
| You to whom work was rest | U |
| Dauntless Toiler of the Sea | J |
| Following ever the joyful quest | U |
| Of beauty on the shores of old Romance | V |
| Bard of the poor of France | V |
| And warrior priest of world wide charity | J |
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| You who loved little children best | U |
| Of all the poets that ever sung | W |
| Great heart golden heart | X |
| Old and yet ever young | W |
| Minstrel of liberty | J |
| Lover of all free winged things | Y |
| Now at last you are free | J |
| Your soul has its wings | Y |
| Heart of France for a hundred years | A |
| Floating far in the light that never fails you | Z |
| Over the turmoil of mortal hopes and fears | A |
| Victor forever victor the whole world hails you | Z |
Henry Van Dyke
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