Rondeau

Eustache Deschamps 1346 (Champagne) – 1406



Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
                   The gist of the Bohemian soul,
                   Bread and salted fish and cold.
        
                   Leeks, and cabbage three days old,
                   Smoked meat, as hard and black as coal;
                   Fleas, stink, pigs, mold.

                   Twenty eating from one bowl,
                   A bitter drink -it's beer, I'm told-
                   Bad sleep on a straw in some filthy hole,
                   Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
                   The gist of the Bohemian soul,
                   Bread and salted fish and cold.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABA abA babABA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 600
Words 73
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 6

Eustache Deschamps

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