Analysis of XXVI - Je rêve, tant Paris...

François Coppée 1842 (Paris) – 1908 (Paris)



Je rêve, tant Paris m'est parfois un enfer,
D'une ville très calme et sans chemin de fer,
Où, chez le sous-préfet, en vieux garçon affable,
Je lirais, au dessert, mon épître ou ma fable.
On se dirait tout bas, comme un mignon péché,
Un quatrain très mordant que j'aurais décoché.
Là, je conserverais de vagues hypothèques.
On voudrait mon avis pour les bibliothèques;
Et j'y rétablirais, disciple consolé,
Nos maîtres, Esménard, Lebrun, Chênedollé.


Scheme AABBCCDDEB
Poetic Form
Metre 111110101111 1111111111 1101111111100 111011111110 11111111011 1111101111 1111111 111101111 1111101010 111111011
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 477
Words 75
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 329
Words per stanza (avg) 73
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 2023

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François Coppée

François Edouard Joachim Coppée was a French poet and novelist. more…

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