Analysis of Ces Yeux Ces Yeux, Doux Larrons De Mon Ame

Jean Antoine de Baif 1532 (Venice) – 1589 (Paris)



Ces yeux ces yeux, doux larrons de mon ame,
M'ont eblouy de leur belle splendeur,
Astres fataux qui de malheur ou d'heur
Me vont comblant au plaisir de madame.

Au cueur d'hiver un printemps l'air embame
Ou que tournez ilz fichent leur ardeur,
Et quelque part qu'ilz baissent leur grandeur
Fleurit un pré mieux odorant que bame.

Les chastes feuz de ces freres jumeaux
Me retirant du naufrage des eaux
Par leur clarté de sauveté m'asseurent:

En leur saint feu mon vivre est allumé,
Mon vivre, las, qui sera consumé,
Quand leur destin arrestera qu'ilz meurent.


Scheme ABBC ABBA DDE CAE
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 111111 1111111 11111110 111110111 1111111 11111101 111110011 1111111 111111 111111 1111110110 1111101 1110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 567
Words 98
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jean Antoine de Baif

Jean Antoine de Baïf was a French poet and member of the Pléiade. more…

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