Analysis of Il aimait à la voir
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
It was in her white skirts that he loved to see
her run straight through the branches and leaves, gracefully,
but still gauche, and hiding her leg from the light,
when she tore her dress, on the briars, in her flight.
| Scheme | AABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11001111111 011101001100 11101001101 11101101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 222 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 170 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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