The Boy On The Barricade Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B CDCDD EFEFF GHGHH IJIKK LMLMM NONOO PPQQRRR SQTT PPUU| Sur une barricade | A |
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| June | B |
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| Like Casabianca on the devastated deck | C |
| In years yet younger but the selfsame core | D |
| Beside the battered barricado's restless wreck | C |
| A lad stood splashed with gouts of guilty gore | D |
| But gemmed with purest blood of patriot more | D |
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| Upon his fragile form the troopers' bloody grip | E |
| Was deeply dug while sharply challenged they | F |
| Were you one of this currish crew pride pursed his lip | E |
| As firm as bandog's brought the bull to bay | F |
| While answered he I fought with others Yea | F |
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| Prepare then to be shot Go join that death doomed row | G |
| As paced he pertly past a volley rang | H |
| And as he fell in line mock mercies once more flow | G |
| Of man's lead lightning's sudden scathing pang | H |
| But to his home turned thoughts the balls but sang | H |
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| Here's half a franc I saved to buy my mother's bread | I |
| The captain started who mourns not a dear | J |
| The dearest mother Where is she wolf cub he said | I |
| Still gruffly There d'ye see not far from here | K |
| Haste make it hers then back to swell their bier | K |
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| He sprang aloof as springald from detested school | L |
| Or ocean rover from protected port | M |
| The little rascal has the laugh on us no fool | L |
| To breast our bullets but the scoff was short | M |
| For soon the rogue is racing from his court | M |
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| And with still fearless front he faces them and calls | N |
| READY but level low she's kissed these eyes | O |
| From cooling hands of men each rifle falls | N |
| And their gray officer in grave surprise | O |
| Life grants the lad whilst his last comrade dies | O |
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| Brave youth I know not well what urged thy act | P |
| Whether thou'lt pass in palace or die rackt | P |
| But then shone on the guns a sublime soul | Q |
| A Bayard boy's bound by his pure parole | Q |
| Honor redeemed though paid by parlous price | R |
| Though lost be sunlit sports wild boyhood's spice | R |
| The Gates the cheers of mates for bright device | R |
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| Greeks would whilom have choicely clasped and circled thee | S |
| Set thee the first to shield some new Thermopylae | Q |
| Thy deed had touched and tuned their true Tyrtaeus tongue | T |
| And staged by Aeschylus grouped thee grand gods among | T |
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| And thy lost name now known no more been gilt and graved | P |
| On cloud kissed column by the sweet south ocean laved | P |
| From us no crown no honors from the civic sheaf | U |
| Purely this poet's tear bejewelled aye green leaf | U |
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Victor-marie Hugo
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