Analysis of Spleen (IV)
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
Quand le ciel bas et lourd pèse comme un couvercle
Sur l'esprit gémissant en proie aux longs ennuis,
Et que de l'horizon embrassant tout le cercle
Il nous verse un jour noir plus triste que les nuits;
Scheme | ABAB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 10111111111 11011111111 11110101101 11111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 207 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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