Chanson De Pirates (pirates' Song) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDC EFFGCDDC GFFGCDDC BDDBCDDC CCCCCDDC H CCDCCCHC GGDGCCHC IJBJCBHB BBKBCBHB CGBGFBHB| Nous emmenions en esclavage | A |
| Cent chr tiens p cheurs de corail | B |
| Nous recrutions pour le s rail | B |
| Dans tous les mo tiers du rivage | A |
| En mer les hardis cumeurs | C |
| Nous allions de Fez Catane | D |
| Dans la gal re capitane | D |
| Nous tions quatre vingts rameurs | C |
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| On signale un couvent terre | E |
| Nous jetons l'ancre pr s du bord | F |
| A nos yeux s'offre tout d'abord | F |
| Une fille du monast re | G |
| Pr s des flots sourde leurs rumeurs | C |
| Elle dormait sous un platane | D |
| Dans la gal re capitane | D |
| Nous tions quatre vingts rameurs | C |
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| La belle fille il faut vous taire | G |
| Il faut nous suivre Il fait bon vent | F |
| Ce n'est que changer de couvent | F |
| Le harem vaut le monast re | G |
| Sa hautesse aime les primeurs | C |
| Nous vous ferons mahom tane | D |
| Dans la gal re capitane | D |
| Nous tions quatre vingts rameurs | C |
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| Elle veut fuir vers sa chapelle | B |
| Osez vous bien fils de Satan | D |
| Nous osons dit le capitan | D |
| Elle pleure supplie appelle | B |
| Malgr sa plainte et ses clameurs | C |
| On l'emporta dans la tartane | D |
| Dans la gal re capitane | D |
| Nous tions quatre vingts rameurs | C |
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| Plus belle encor dans sa tristesse | C |
| Ses yeux taient deux talismans | C |
| Elle valait mille tomans | C |
| On la vendit sa hautesse | C |
| Elle eut beau dire Je me meurs | C |
| De nonne elle devint sultane | D |
| Dans la gal re capitane | D |
| Nous tions quatre vingts rameurs | C |
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| Pirates' Song | H |
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| We're bearing five score Christian dogs | C |
| To serve the cruel drivers | C |
| Some are fair beauties gently born | D |
| And some rough coral divers | C |
| We hardy skimmers of the sea | C |
| Are lucky in each sally | C |
| And eighty strong we send along | H |
| The dreaded Pirate Galley | C |
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| A nunnery was spied ashore | G |
| We lowered away the cutter | G |
| And landing seized the youngest nun | D |
| Ere she a cry could utter | G |
| Beside the creek deaf to our oars | C |
| She slumbered in green alley | C |
| As eighty strong we sent along | H |
| The dreaded Pirate Galley | C |
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| 'Be silent darling you must come | I |
| The wind is off shore blowing | J |
| You only change your prison dull | B |
| For one that's splendid glowing | J |
| His Highness doats on milky cheeks | C |
| So do not make us dally' | B |
| We eighty strong who send along | H |
| The dreaded Pirate Galley | B |
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| She sought to flee back to her cell | B |
| And called us each a devil | B |
| We dare do aught becomes Old Scratch | K |
| But like a treatment civil | B |
| So spite of buffet prayers and calls | C |
| Too late her friends to rally | B |
| We eighty strong bore her along | H |
| Unto the Pirate Galley | B |
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| The fairer for her tears profuse | C |
| As dews refresh the flower | G |
| She is well worth three purses full | B |
| And will adorn the bower | G |
| For vain her vow to pine and die | F |
| Thus torn from her dear valley | B |
| She reigns and we still row along | H |
| The dreaded Pirate Galley | B |
Victor Marie Hugo
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