Analysis of L'envoy
François Villon 1431 (Paris) – 1463
Princess, by whom my hope is fed,
My heart thee prays in lowlihead
To prune the ill boughs overgrown,
Nor slay Love's tree, nor plant instead
Another tree, save this alone.
Scheme | AABAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 111101 1101101 11111101 01011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 180 |
Words | 33 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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