Analysis of Chevalier
Mon Dieu, mon Dieu,”
he screamed to the crowd
“On stage as a vagabond
my home you enshroud
“My makeup—my armor,
my performance—my cause
“Reborn with each act,
as I hear your applause
“You take me each matinee,
you take me each night
“To the depths of your hearts
where my darkness alights
“Mon Dieu, mon Dieu,”
he shouted again
“Forever my audience
—forever my friends”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Scheme | Aa aa xb ax xa xb Ax xx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 11101 1110100 11101 11110 101011 11111 111101 111110 11111 101111 11101 1111 11001 0101100 01011 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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