Poetic Summary of the Hunchback of Notre Dame
Disfigured
man, a hump on his back-
His
ear and one eye, he did lack,
He
tolled the bells of the Virgin Mary,
Secluded
in his sanctuary.
Paraded,
taunted, Pope of Fools,
Claude
Frollo came, ending his rule.
La
Esmerelda, gypsy at heart,
As
beautiful as fine, fine art.
With
her goat, the magical Djali,
Dancing
the streets in their own folly.
Quasimodo,
the hunchback, and Archdeacon Claude
Gazed
at her beauty, and were greatly awed.
They
attacked her in the alleyway,
To
take her with them, and make her stay.
Phoebus
caught the man with the back askew,
They
tortured him, one day, then two.
He
cried for water, and he got none,
The
gypsy gave in, and ended their fun.
A
few months later, the story goes,
Dancing
there, was the gypsy rose,
Phoebus
asked to see her later,
Frollo
saw, and denounced his creator.
He
stabbed Phoebus, and left him to bleed,
While
La Esmerelda got charged with the deed.
She
admitted to performing Frollo's feat,
And
the Place de Gréve she was forced to greet.
From
the cathedral, the half-man came,
From
the top of Notre Dame, he did proclaim-
"Sanctuary!
Sanctuary!" Then the crowd cheered
For
the man that they once feared.
With
the gypsy in his care,
In
the cathedral, she was spared.
He
kept her there, he kept her free,
But
her death is what they wanted to see.
They
took her out of her sanctuary,
And
then her body, they did bury.
From
the bell tower, the Archdeacon was thrown,
By
the very humpback who shared his home.
"Oh!
Everything I loved!" he cried,
And
then slunk off, and slowly died.
