Clair De Lune (moonlight On The Bosphorus) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAA BAAB BCCB ADDA AEEA A FGGF BCCB EAAE CHHC AGGFLa lune tait sereine et jouait sur les flots | A |
La fen tre enfin libre est ouverte la brise | A |
La sultane regarde et la mer qui se brise | A |
L bas d'un flot d'argent brode les noirs lots | A |
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De ses doigts en vibrant s' chappe la guitare | B |
Elle coute Un bruit sourd frappe les sourds chos | A |
Est ce un lourd vaisseau turc qui vient des eaux de Cos | A |
Battant l'archipel grec de sa rame tartare | B |
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Sont ce des cormorans qui plongent tour tour | B |
Et coupent l'eau qui roule en perles sur leur aile | C |
Est ce un djinn qui l haut siffle d'une voix gr le | C |
Et jette dans la mer les cr neaux de la tour | B |
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Qui trouble ainsi les flots pr s du s rail des femmes | A |
Ni le noir cormoran sur la vague berc | D |
Ni les pierres du mur ni le bruit cadenc | D |
Du lourd vaisseau rampant sur l'onde avec des rames | A |
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Ce sont des sacs pesants d'o partent des sanglots | A |
On verrait en sondant la mer qui les prom ne | E |
Se mouvoir dans leurs flancs comme une forme humaine | E |
La lune tait sereine et jouait sur les flots | A |
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Moonlight on the Bosphorus | A |
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Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave | F |
At the cool casement to the evening breeze flung wide | G |
Leans the Sultana and delights to watch the tide | G |
With surge of silvery sheen yon sleeping islets lave | F |
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From her hand as it falls vibrates the light guitar | B |
She listens hark that sound that echoes dull and low | C |
Is it the beat upon the Archipelago | C |
Of some long galley's oar from Scio bound afar | B |
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Is it the cormorants whose black wings one by one | E |
Cut the blue wave that o'er them breaks in liquid pearls | A |
Is it some hovering sprite with whistling scream that hurls | A |
Down to the deep from yon old tower a loosened stone | E |
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Who thus disturbs the tide near the seraglio | C |
'Tis no dark cormorants that on the ripple float | H |
'Tis no dull plume of stone no oars of Turkish boat | H |
With measured beat along the water creeping slow | C |
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'Tis heavy sacks borne each by voiceless dusky slaves | A |
And could you dare to sound the depths of yon dark tide | G |
Something like human form would stir within its side | G |
Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave | F |
Victor Marie Hugo
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