Analysis of Haute beauté dans une humble pucelle

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



Haute beauté dans une humble pucelle,
Un beau parler plein de grave douceur,
Sous blondz cheveux un avantchenu cueur,
Un chaste sein ou la vertu se cele :

En corps mortel une grace immortelle,
En douceur fiere une douce rigueur,
Eu sage esprit une gaye vigueur,
En ame simple une sage cautele :

Et ces beaux yeux mouveurs de mes ennuis,
Yeux suffisants pour eclersir les nuitz,
Qui font sentir aux plus transis leur flame,

Sont les larrons (et point je ne m'en deux)
Qui, me guettans au passage amoureux,
Au depourveu me ravirent mon ame.


Scheme ABBA ABBA CCD CCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 11101111 111111 11111111 111111 1111101 1101111 1110111 11111111 111111 11111111 1111111111 1111101 111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 544
Words 96
Sentences 2
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) 24
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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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