Analysis of Epitaph On Rabelais
Jean Antoine de Baif 1532 (Venice) – 1589 (Paris)
Pluto, bid Rabelais welcome to thy shore,
That thou, who art the king of woe and pain,
Whose subjects never learned to laugh before,
May boast a laugher in thy grim domain.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101110111 1111011101 1101011101 1101001101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 179 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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