Analysis of For Madame Sabatier
Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)
What will you say tonight, poor soul in solitude,
what will you say my heart, withered till now,
to the so beautiful, so sweet, so dear one,
whose divine gaze recreated the flower?
- We will set Pride now to singing her praises:
Nothing outdoes her sweet air of authority.
Her spiritual flesh has the perfume of angels,
and her eye surrounds us in robes of infinity.
Whether in the night, and alone, and in solitude,
Whether in the street, and among the multitude,
her phantom dances in air, like a flame.
Sometimes it speaks and it says ‘I am beautiful.
You, for the love of me, must love beauty alone:
for I am your Madonna, Muse, Guardian Angel.
Scheme | AXXX XBXB AAX CXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111010 1111111011 10110011111 1011100010 11111110010 10101110100 0100011001110 0010110110100 100010010010 10001001010 0101001101 011101111100 110111111001 1111010110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 649 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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