L'enfance (childhood) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DCDC DDDD C DEDE CCCC FCFC| L'enfant chantait la m re au lit ext nu e | A |
| Agonisait beau front dans l'ombre se penchant | B |
| La mort au dessus d'elle errait dans la nu e | A |
| Et j' coutais ce r le et j'entendais ce chant | C |
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| L'enfant avait cinq ans et pr s de la fen tre | D |
| Ses rires et ses jeux faisaient un charmant bruit | C |
| Et la m re c t de ce pauvre doux tre | D |
| Qui chantait tout le jour toussait toute la nuit | C |
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| La m re alla dormir sous les dalles du clo tre | D |
| Et le petit enfant se remit chanter | D |
| La douleur est un fruit Dieu ne le fait pas cro tre | D |
| Sur la branche trop faible encor pour le porter | D |
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| Childhood | C |
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| The Child was singing and the Mother lay | D |
| Stretched on the bed which pain and anguish throng | E |
| Death's cloud fast closing on her parting day | D |
| I heard her laboring breath I heard the song | E |
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| The Child its gambols by the lattice plied | C |
| Its sport its laughter sounded glad and bright | C |
| And the poor Mother by her darling's side | C |
| Who sang all day coughed through the painful night | C |
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| The Mother sleeps the cloister's stones below | F |
| The Child sings heedless of its orphan state | C |
| Grief is a fruit that God forbids to grow | F |
| On boughs too feeble to support its weight | C |
Victor Marie Hugo
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