Analysis of Au Lecteur
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine,
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
| Scheme | ABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Enclosed rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 111011111 1111111 111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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