Analysis of Épitaphe

Jean Antoine de Baif 1532 (Venice) – 1589 (Paris)



(écrit après la Saint-Barthélemy)

Pauvres Cors où logeoyent ces esprits turbulans,
Naguieres la terreur des Princes de la terre,
Mesmes contre le ciel osans faire la guerre,
Deloiaux, obstinez, pervers et violans :

Aujourdhuy le repas des animaux volans
Et rampans charogniers, et de ces vers qu'enserre
La puante voirie, et du peuple qui erre
Sous les fleuves profonds en la mer se coulans :

Pauvres Cors, reposez, si vos malheureux os,
Nerfs et veines et chair, sont dignes de repos,
Qui ne purent soufrir le repos en la France.

Esprits dans les carfours toutes les nuits criez :
O Mortels avertis et voiez et croiez,
Que le forfait retarde et ne fuit la vengeance.


Scheme X ABXA ABBA AAA AAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1111111 1111101110 11011111 11111 101111 11111111 11111111 111111111 1111111 111111111 111101111 11111111 1111111 1011111110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 668
Words 114
Sentences 3
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jean Antoine de Baif

Jean Antoine de Baïf was a French poet and member of the Pléiade. more…

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