Analysis of Epitaphe
Mathurin Regnier 1573 (Chartres ) – 1613 (Rouen )
J'ai vécu sans nul pensement,
Me laissant aller doucement
A la bonne loi naturelle,
Et si m'étonne fort pourquoi
La mort daigna songer à moi,
Qui n'ai daigné penser à elle.
| Scheme | AABCDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 11101 01111 111111 111101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 180 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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