Analysis of Le Chene De Ceres

Andre Marie de Chenier 1762 (Constantinople) – 1794 (Paris)



Allons chanter, assis dans les saintes forêts,
Sous ce chêne orgueilleux, favori de Cérès,
Qui loin autour de lui porte un immense ombrage,
Tu vois, de tous côtés pendant à son feuillage,
Couronnes et bandeaux et bouquets entassés,
Doux monuments des voeux par Cérès exaucés.

A son ombre souvent les nymphes bocagères
Viennent former les pas de leurs danses légères;
Pour mesurer ses flancs et leur vaste contour,
Leurs mains s'entrelaçant serpentent à l'entour:
Et, les bras étendus, vingt Dryades à peine
Pressent ce tronc noueux et dont Cérès est vaine.


Scheme AABBAA CCDDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 1111111111 11111011011 11111111011 11110111 110011111111 01111111 11011111111 11111111 111111 1111111 111111111011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 575
Words 93
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 215
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Andre Marie de Chenier

André Marie Chénier was a French poet of Greek and Franco-Levantine origin, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for supposed "crimes against the state", just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and other works of art. more…

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