Analysis of Quand le pilot voit le nord luire ès cieux

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



Quand le pilot voit le nord luire ès cieux,
La calme mer ronfler sous la carène,
Un doux zéphyr soufrer la voile pleine,
Il vogue, enflant son coeur audacieux.

Le même aussi, quand le ciel pluvieux
Des vents félons meut l'orageuse haleine,
Qui bat les flancs de sa nef incertaine,
Humble, tapit sous la merci des dieux.

Amour ainsi d'une assurance fière
Haussa mon coeur, tandis que la lumière
De tes doux yeux me pouvait éclairer ;

Las ! aujourd'hui que je te perds de vue
Quelle âme vit d'amour plus éperdue
Quand fors la mort ne puis rien espérer ?


Scheme ABBA ABBA CCC DDC
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101111 11111111 11111111 111111 01111011 1111111 11111111 10111111 11101011 11111111 1111111 1101111111 1111101 111111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 567
Words 100
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Jean Antoine de Baif

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