Analysis of À un poète ignorant

Clément Marot 1496 (Cahors) – 1544 (Turin)



Qu'on mène aux champs ce coquardeau,
Lequel gâte (quand il compose)
Raison, mesure, texte et glose,
Soit en ballade ou en rondeau.

II n'a cervelle ne cerveau.
C'est pourquoi si haut crier j'ose : «
Qu'on mène aux champs ce coquardeau. »

S'il veut rien faire de nouveau,
Qu'il œuvre hardiment en prose (J'entends s'il en sait quelque chose) :
Car en rime ce n'est qu'un veau,
Qu'on mène aux champs.


Scheme Abba cbA cbcx
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 1111101 101111 11011101 110111 11111011 11111111 1111111 1111111111111 1111101111 111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 394
Words 69
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Modified by davidb on December 12, 2019

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Clément Marot

Clément Marot (23 November 1496 – 12 September 1544) was a French poet of the Renaissance period more…

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