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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Mathurin Regnier

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