Analysis of À la mer

Clément Marot 1496 (Cahors) – 1544 (Turin)



O cruauté de impétueuses vagues,
Mer variable, où toute crainte abonde,

Cause mouvant, dont trop cruelles dagues
L'ont fait périr de mort tant furibonde.
Si haut désir de connaître le monde
T'avait transmis si gentil personnage,
Las ! fallait-il qu'en la fleur de son âge
Par-devers toi si rudement le prinses,
Sans plus revoir la cour des nobles
Princes,
Où tant il est à présent regretté ?

O mer amère, aux mordantes espinces ;
Certainement, ce qu'arrêtes et pinces,
Au gré de tous est trop bien arrêté.


Scheme AB ABBCCAAAB AAB
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 110001111 111111 11111111 111111101 11111 1111111111 11011101 110111110 10 11101111 1111111 111111 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 508
Words 84
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 9, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 127
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Clément Marot

Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French poet of the Renaissance period more…

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