Analysis of Quiconque fit d'Amour la pourtraiture
Jean Antoine de Baif 1532 (Venice) – 1589 (Paris)
Quiconque fit d'Amour la pourtraiture,
De cet Enfant le patron ou prit il,
Sur qui tant bien il guida son outil
Pour en tirer au vray ceste peinture ?
Certe il sçavoyt l'effet de sa pointure,
Le garnissant d'un arc non inutil :
Bandant ses yeulx de son pinceau subtil,
Il demonstroit nostre aveugle nature.
Tel qu'en ton coeur, ô peintre, tu l'avoys,
Tel qu'il te fut, tel que tu le sçavoys,
Telle tu as peinte au vif son image.
A ton amour du tout semble le mien,
Fors que volage et leger fut le tien,
Le mien pesant a perdu son plumage.
| Scheme | ABBA ABBA CCD XXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 111010111 111111011 1111111 11111111 0111111 1111111 111110 11111111 11111111011 111111110 01111101 111110101 01101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 545 |
| Words | 103 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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