Analysis of La servante au grand coeur dont vous étiez jalouse (The Great-Hearted Servant of whom you were Jealous)
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
The great-hearted servant of whom you were jealous,
sleeping her sleep in the humble grass,
shouldn't we take her a few flowers?
The dead, the poor dead, have griefs like ours,
and when October sighs, clipper of trees,
round their marble tombs, with its mournful breeze,
they must find the living, ungratefully, wed,
snug in sleep, to the warmth of their bed,
while they, devoured by dark reflection,
without bedfellow, or sweet conversation,
old skeletons riddled with worms, deep frozen,
feel the winter snows trickling round them,
and the years flow by without kin or friend
to replace the wreaths at their railing's end.
If some night, when the logs whistle and flare,
seeing her sitting calm, in that chair,
if on a December night, cold and blue,
I might find her there placed in the room,
solemn, and come from her bed, eternal,
to guard the grown child with her eye, maternal,
what could I answer that pious spirit,
seeing tears under her hollow eyelid?
Scheme | ABCCDDEEFFFGHHIIJKLLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011010111010 100100101 101100110 0101111110 0101011011 1110111101 11101011 101101111 1101011010 011011010 11001011110 101011011 0011101111 11011111 1111011001 100101011 1100101101 111011001 1001101010 11011101010 1111011010 101100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 948 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 755 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 166 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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