Analysis of Le Babylonien ses hauts murs vantera

Joachim du Bellay 1525 (Liré) – 1560 (Paris)



Le Babylonien ses hauts murs vantera
Et ses vergers en l'air, de son Ephésienne
La Grèce décrira la fabrique ancienne,
Et le peuple du Nil ses pointes chantera :

La même Grèce encor vanteuse publiera
De son grand Jupiter l'image Olympienne,
Le Mausole sera la gloire Carienne,
Et son vieux Labyrinth' la Créte n'oubliera :

L'antique Rhodien élèvera la gloire
De son fameux Colosse, au temple de Mémoire :
Et si quelque oeuvre encor digne se peut vanter

De marcher en ce rang, quelque plus grand faconde
Le dira : quant à moi, pour tous je veux chanter
Les sept coteaux romains, sept miracles du monde.


Scheme ABBA ABBA AAA CAC
Poetic Form
Metre 011111 1111111111 11111111 10111111 11111111 1111001101 0110111 111101111 101111011 1111110111 1111011111 1101111111 011111111 1111110011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 606
Words 104
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Joachim du Bellay

Joachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade. more…

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