Analysis of Je T’Indique Le Fruit

Andre Marie de Chenier 1762 (Constantinople) – 1794 (Paris)



Je t'indique le fruit qui m'a rendu malade;
Je te crie en quel lieu, sous la route, est caché
Un abîme, où déjà mes pas ont trébuché.
D'un mutuel amour combien doux est l'empire!
Heureux, et plus heureux que je ne saurais dire,
Deux coeurs qui ne font qu'un, dont la vie et l'amour
N'auront, dans un long temps, qu'un même dernier jour!
Mais bien peu, qu'ont séduits de si douces chimères,
Out fui le repentir et les larmes amères.
O poètes amants! conseillers dangereux,
Qui vantez la douceur des tourments amoureux,
Votre miel déguisait de funestes breuvages;
Sur les rochers d'Eubée, entourés de naufrages,
Allumant dans la nuit d'infidèles flambeaux,
Vous avez égaré mes crédules vaisseaux.
Mais que dis-je? vos vers sont tout trempés de larmes.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110111011 111111111011 11111111111 111111011100 111111111 1111111111110 11111111111 11111111111 110111111 111111 1111111 1111111 111111111 1111111 1111111 111111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 765
Words 129
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 566
Words per stanza (avg) 127
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Andre Marie de Chenier

André Marie Chénier was a French poet of Greek and Franco-Levantine origin, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for supposed "crimes against the state", just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and other works of art. more…

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