Victor Marie Hugo

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The Eaglet Mourned Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDC EFGHIII JJKLMK NNOJJO PPQQKKK FFJRRJ SSCTTC

Too hard Napoleon's fate if loneA
No being he had loved no single oneB
Less dark that doom had beenC
But with the heart of might doth ever dwellD
The heart of love And in his island cellD
Two things there were I weenC
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Two things a portrait and a map there wereE
Here hung the pictured world an infant thereF
That framed his genius this enshrined his loveG
And as at eve he glanced round th'alcoveH
Where jailers watched his very thoughts to spyI
What mused he then What dreams of years gone byI
Stirred 'neath that discrowned brow and fired that glistening eyeI
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T' was not the steps of that heroic taleJ
That from Arcola marched to MontmirailJ
On Glory's red degreesK
Nor Cairo pashas' steel devouring steedsL
Nor the tall shadows of the PyramidsM
Ah 't was not always theseK
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'T was not the bursting shell the iron sleetN
The whirlwind rush of battle 'neath his feetN
Through twice ten years agoO
When at his beck upon that sea of steelJ
Were launched the rustling banners there to reelJ
Like masts when tempests blowO
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'T was not Madrid nor Kremlin of the CzarP
Nor Pharos on Old Egypt's coast afarP
Nor shrill r veille's camp awakening soundQ
Nor bivouac couch'd its starry fires aroundQ
Crested dragoons grim veteran grenadiersK
Nor the red lancers 'mid their wood of spearsK
Blazing like baleful poppies 'mong the golden earsK
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No 't was an infant's image fresh and fairF
With rosy mouth half oped as slumbering thereF
It lay beneath the smileJ
Of her whose breast soft bending o'er its sleepR
Lingering upon that little lip doth keepR
One pendent drop the whileJ
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Then his sad head upon his hands inclinedS
He wept that father heart all unconfinedS
Outpoured in love aloneC
My blessing on thy clay cold head poor childT
Sole being for whose sake his thoughts beguiledT
Forgot the world's lost throneC

Victor Marie Hugo



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