Analysis of le Lys Est Le Plus Beau
Andre Marie de Chenier 1762 (Constantinople) – 1794 (Paris)
Le lys est le plus beau des enfants du zéphire,
Il lève un front superbe et demande l'empire.
Des suaves esprits dans sa coupe formés,
L'air, les eaux, le bocage, au loin sont embaumés.
Sous l'herbe, loin des yeux, plus aimable et moins belle,
La violette fuit. Son parfum la révèle,
Avertit qu'elle est là; que, voulant se cacher
Là, pour le sein qu'on aime, il faut l'aller chercher.
| Scheme | AABBCDAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101111111 111111111100 11111111 11110111111 1111111111 1011111110 1110111111 1101111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 286 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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