Analysis of Sans Parents, Sans Amis

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



Sans parents, sans amis et sans concitoyens,
Oublié sur la terre et loin de tous les miens,
Par les vagues jeté sur cette île farouche,
Le doux nom de la France est souvent sur ma bouche.
Auprès d'un noir foyer, seul, je me plains du sort.
Je compte les moments, je souhaite la mort;
Et pas un seul ami dont la voix m'encourage,
Qui près de moi s'asseye, et, voyant mon visage
Se baigner de mes pleurs et tomber sur mon sein;
Me dise: 'Qu'as-tu donc?' et me presse la main.


Scheme AABBCCDEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 110110111 11110111111 11111101 011111011111 1111110111111 111101111 1111101111010 11111111110 1111111111 11111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 478
Words 94
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 354
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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