Luna Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL BMNO PQRM STUV WXYT ZDA2B B2B2C2K B2D2B2E2O France although you sleep | A |
We call you we the forbidden | B |
The shadows have ears | C |
And the depths have cries | D |
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Bitter glory less despotism | E |
Over a discouraged people | F |
Closes a black thick grate | G |
Of error and prejudice | H |
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It locks up the loyal swarm | I |
Of firm thinkers of heroes | J |
But the Idea with the flap of a wing | K |
Will part the heavy bars | L |
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And as in ninety one | B |
Will retake sovereign flight | M |
For breaking apart a cage of bronze | N |
Is easy for bronze bird | O |
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Darkness covers the world | P |
But the Idea illuminates and shines | Q |
With its white brightness it floods | R |
The dark blues of the night | M |
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It is the solitary lantern | S |
The providential ray | T |
It is the lamp of the earth | U |
That cannot help but light the sky | V |
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It calms the suffering soul | W |
Guides life puts the dead to rest | X |
It shows the mean the gulf | Y |
It shows the just the way | T |
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In seeing in the dark mist | Z |
The Idea love of sad eyes | D |
Rise calm serene and pure | A2 |
On the mysterious horizon | B |
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Fanaticism and hatred | B2 |
Roar before each threshhold | B2 |
As obscene hounds howl | C2 |
When appears the moon in mourning | K |
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Oh Think of the mighty Idea | B2 |
Nations its superhuman brow | D2 |
Has upon it from now on the light | B2 |
That will show the way to tomorrow | E2 |
Victor Marie Hugo
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