Analysis of Le Doux Sommeil Habite

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

Le doux sommeil habite où sourit la fortune,
Pareil aux faux amis, le malheur l'importune.
Il vole se poser, loin des cris de douleurs,
Sur des yeux que jamais n'ont altérés les pleurs.

Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 011111110 11110011 1111011111 11111111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 193
Words 35
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 142
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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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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