Analysis of Durant L'esté, Par Le Vergier Grillé

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



Durant l'esté, par le vergier grillé,
Les tendres fleurs sous la nuit blandissante
Vont redressant leur tresse fanissante,
Qui ja pleuroyt son honneur depouillé.

D'amour ainsi mon esprit travaillé,
Qui ja quittoyt ma vie languissante,
Reprit vigueur par la force puissante
Du restaurant qu'ores tu m'as baillé.

Doux restaurant, dousucrée ambrosie,
Qui ne doyt rien a celle qui es cieux
Des immortelz la bouche resazie,

Plus doux manger ne gouttent, non les dieux:
Si ce repas me sustente la vie,
Je ne seray sus le leur envieux.


Scheme ABBA ABBA CCC CXC
Poetic Form
Metre 101011011 1111111 11111 111111 111011 111111 111111 110111111 110111 111101111 11111 111011111 1111111 1111011
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 538
Words 89
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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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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