Satire On The Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A A BBCCDDEEAFFGGHHIIJJA A| Une terre au flanc maigre | A |
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| Bk III xi October | A |
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| A clod with rugged meagre rust stained weather worried face | B |
| Where care filled creatures tug and delve to keep a worthless race | B |
| And glean begrudgedly by all their unremitting toil | C |
| Sour scanty bread and fevered water from the ungrateful soil | C |
| Made harder by their gloom than flints that gash their harried hands | D |
| And harder in the things they call their hearts than wolfish bands | D |
| Perpetuating faults inventing crimes for paltry ends | E |
| And yet perversest beings hating Death their best of friends | E |
| Pride in the powerful no more no less than in the poor | A |
| Hatred in both their bosoms love in one or wondrous two | F |
| Fog in the valleys on the mountains snowfields ever new | F |
| That only melt to send down waters for the liquid hell | G |
| In which their strongest sons and fairest daughters vilely fell | G |
| No marvel Justice Modesty dwell far apart and high | H |
| Where they can feebly hear and rarer answer victims' cry | H |
| At both extremes unflinching frost the centre scorching hot | I |
| Land storms that strip the orchards nude leave beaten grain to rot | I |
| Oceans that rise with sudden force to wash the bloody land | J |
| Where War amid sob drowning cheers claps weapons in each hand | J |
| And this to those who luckily abide afar | A |
| This is ha ha a star | A |
Victor-marie Hugo
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