Analysis of Chanson. - And Imitation



Que fais tu bergere dans ce beau verger
Tu ne songe gueres a me soulager?
Tu connois ma flamme, tu vois ma langueur,
Prens belle inhumaine pitie de mon coeur.

Dequoy te plains tu malheureux berger?
Que n'ay je point fait pour te soulager!
J'ay quitte la plaine, mon troupeau, mon chien,
Prend on tat de peine quand on n'aime rien.

Why thus from the plain does my sheperdess rove,
Forsaking her swain and neglecting his love?
You have heard all my grief, you see how I die,
Oh! give some relief to the swain whom you fly.

How can you complain, or what am I to say,
Since my dog lies unfed, and my sheep run astray?
Need I tell what I mean that I languish alone!
When I leave all the plain you may guess 'tis for one.


Scheme AAAA AABB XXCC XAXX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 11111111 1111011 11111111 1111111 1111110 111111111 111111111 1111111111 111011111 01001001011 11111111111 11101101111 11101111111 11111011101 111111111001 111101111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 717
Words 143
Sentences 12
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Matthew Prior

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