Analysis of Shadows of His Lady

Jacques Tahureau 1527 (Le Mans) – 1555 (1555)



Within the sand of what far river lies
The gold that gleams in tresses of my Love?
What highest circle of the Heavens above
Is jewelled with such stars as are her eyes?
And where is the rich sea whose coral vies
With her red lips, that cannot kiss enough?
What dawn-lit garden knew the rose, whereof
The fled soul lives in her cheeks’ rosy guise?

What Parian marble that is loveliest,
Can match the whiteness of her brow and breast?
When drew she breath from the Sabaean glade?
Oh happy rock and river, sky and sea,
Gardens, and glades Sabaean, all that be
The far-off splendid semblance of my maid!


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Poetic Form
Metre 0101111101 0111010111 11010101001 111111101 0110111101 1011110101 111101011 0111001101 1110111 1101010101 11111011 1101010101 10011111 0111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 609
Words 113
Sentences 8
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 236
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 03, 2023

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Jacques Tahureau

Jacques Tahureau was born in Mans to a magistrate father Jacques Tahureau, who had for third-grandfather Anne Du Guesclin, sister of the Constable of France and a mother from the nobility of Poitou, Marie Tiercelin de la Roche du Maine. After studying literature, a stay in Italy and a few feats of arms as a squire and then a knight, he began to compose love verses for a beautiful woman named L'Admirée. more…

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