Analysis of N'est ce pas qu'il est doux-In (Is it not pleasant)

Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)



Is it not pleasant, now we are tired,
and tarnished, like other men, to search for those fires
in the furthest East, where, again, we might see
morning's new dawn, and, in mad history,
hear the echoes, that vanish behind us, the sighs
of the young loves, God gives, at the start of our lives?


Scheme ABCCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011110 0101101111110 00101101111 1011001100 101011001101 1011111011101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 295
Words 57
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 222
Words per stanza (avg) 55
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. more…

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