Analysis of Mes Chants Savent Tout Peindre

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



Mes chants savent tout peindre; accours, viens les entendre.
Ma voix plaît, Astérie, elle est flexible et tendre.
Philomèle, les bois, les eaux, les pampres verts,
Les muses, le printemps, habitent dans mes vers.
Le baiser dans mes vers étincelle et respire.
La source aux pieds d'argent qui m'arrête et m'inspire
Y roule en murmurant son flot léger et pur.
Souvent avec les cieux il se pare d'azur.
Le souffle insinuant, qui frémit sous l'ombrage,
Voltige dans mes vers comme dans le feuillage.
Mes vers sont parfumés et de myrte et de fleurs,
Soit les fleurs dont l'été ranime les couleurs,
Soit celles que seize ans, été plus doux encore,
Sur une belle joue ont l'art de faire éclore.


Scheme AABBACDAEEBBFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111010 11111110110011 101111111 1100101111 01111111 11111101111101 1111111111 11111111 00111111111 11111101 11111111111 111111111 111111111 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 697
Words 121
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 525
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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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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