Analysis of 79
Joachim du Bellay 1525 (Liré) – 1560 (Paris)
I do not write of love: I am no lover.
I do not write of beauty: I have no woman.
I do not write of gentleness but the human
rudeness I see. And my pleasures are all over,
so I do not try to write of pleasure, but only
misery. Favors? No, I am on my own.
I do not write of riches: I have none.
Or of life at court, when I'm far from it and lonely.
I do not write of health, for I'm often ill.
I cannot write of France from a Roman hill.
Or honor? I see so little of that about.
I cannot write of friendship but only pretence.
I will not write of virtue, here in its absence.
Or knowledge or faith, in ignorance and doubt.
Scheme | ABBACXBC DDEFFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111110 111111011110 111111001010 101101101110 1111111110110 10010111111 1111110111 1111111111010 11111111101 11011110101 110111101101 11011101101 111111010110 11011010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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