Analysis of Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville (I've not forgotten, near the town)
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
I've not forgotten, near to the town,
our white house, small but alone:
its Pomona of plaster, its Venus of old
hiding nude limbs in the meagre grove,
and the sun, superb, at evening, streaming,
behind the glass, where its sheaves were bursting,
a huge eye in a curious heaven, present
to gaze at our meal, lengthy and silent,
spreading its beautiful candle glimmer
on the frugal cloth and the rough curtain.
Scheme | ABCDEEFFGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110101101 10111101 101011011011 10110011 0010111010 0101111010 011001001010 11110110010 1011001010 1010100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 407 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 320 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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