What The Poet Was Telling Himself In 1848 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDEFGHHIIJJKLMMNN MMOOPPE E| You mustn't seek out power mustn't grab the helm | A |
| Your work lies elsewhere spirit of another realm | A |
| In innocence withdraw before this moment here | B |
| Lover of thought in mourning both sweet and severe | C |
| Disdained or understood by men still you must live | D |
| Shepherd for their tending priest to blessings give | E |
| When citizens embittered by their misery | F |
| Sons of the same France and of the same Paris | G |
| Slit one another's throats when at each corner loom | H |
| Barricades just sprung up sinister wrapped in gloom | H |
| Rising vomiting death at once and everywhere | I |
| Though unarmed and alone you must simply go there | I |
| Must in this vile awful and unholy war show | J |
| Your chest your heart you have to let your spirit flow | J |
| To speak to pray to save both the weak and the strong | K |
| To smile under fire and weep for the dead now gone | L |
| Then to rise calm to your place in isolation | M |
| And to defend within the fervent collocation | M |
| Those that it would judge or from society eject | N |
| To overturn the scaffold to serve and to protect | N |
| The order and the peace that rash actors have shaken | M |
| And our soldiers by the little general taken | M |
| And the man of the people sent to the asylum | O |
| And the laws and also our sad and proud freedom | O |
| To offer consolation at this fateful day | P |
| To the divine art that shudders weeps and to stay | P |
| Awaiting for the rest the moment decisive | E |
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| Your role is to inform and to remain pensive | E |
Victor Marie Hugo
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