The First Black Flag Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLLMNOPQRS ATJUVQWXYOIZMA2| JOB Hast thou ne'er heard men say | A |
| That in the Black Wood 'twixt Cologne and Spire | B |
| Upon a rock flanked by the towering mountains | C |
| A castle stands renowned among all castles | D |
| And in this fort on piles of lava built | E |
| A burgrave dwells among all burgraves famed | F |
| Hast heard of this wild man who laughs at laws | G |
| Charged with a thousand crimes for warlike deeds | H |
| Renowned and placed under the Empire's ban | I |
| By the Diet of Frankfort by the Council | J |
| Of Pisa banished from the Holy Church | K |
| Reprobate isolated cursed yet still | L |
| Unconquered 'mid his mountains and in will | L |
| The bitter foe of the Count Palatine | M |
| And Treves' proud archbishop who has spurned | N |
| For sixty years the ladder which the Empire | O |
| Upreared to scale his walls Hast heard that he | P |
| Shelters the brave the flaunting rich man strips | Q |
| Of master makes a slave That here above | R |
| All dukes aye kings eke emperors in the eyes | S |
| Of Germany to their fierce strife a prey | A |
| He rears upon his tower in stern defiance | T |
| A signal of appeal to the crushed people | J |
| A banner vast of Sorrow's sable hue | U |
| Snapped by the tempest in its whirlwind wrath | V |
| So that kings quiver as the jades at whips | Q |
| Hast heard he touches now his hundredth year | W |
| And that defying fate in face of heaven | X |
| On his invincible peak no force of war | Y |
| Uprooting other holds nor powerful Caesar | O |
| Nor Rome nor age that bows the pride of man | I |
| Nor aught on earth hath vanquished or subdued | Z |
| Or bent this ancient Titan of the Rhine | M |
| The excommunicated Job | A2 |
Victor Marie Hugo
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