Analysis of Toujours Ce Souvenir M’Attendrit

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



Toujours ce souvenir m'attendrit et me touche,
Quand lui-même, appliquant la flûte sur ma bouche,
Riant et m'asseyant sur lui, près de son coeur,
M'appelant son rival et déjà son vainqueur,
Il façonnait ma lèvre inhabile et peu sûre
A souffler une haleine harmonieuse et pure;
Et ses savantes mains prenaient mes jeunes doigts,
Les levaient, les baissaient, recommençaient vingt fois,
Leur enseignant ainsi, quoique faibles encore,
A fermer tour à tour les trous du buis sonore.


Scheme ABCCDEFFGC
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111 110111111111 11111011111 111011111 11111111111 0111111 11111111 11111111 111111 011111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 488
Words 79
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 374
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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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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