Analysis of L'Étranger

Charles Baudelaire 1821 (Paris) – 1867 (Paris)



- Qui aimes-tu le mieux, homme énigmatique, dis? ton père, ta mère, ta soeur ou ton frère?

- Je n’ai ni père, ni mère, ni soeur, ni frère.
- Tes amis?
- Vous vous servez là d’une parole dont le sens m’est resté jusqu’à ce jour inconnu.
- Ta patrie?
- J’ignore sous quelle latitude elle est située.
- La beauté?
- Je l’aimerais volontiers, déesse et immortelle.
- L’or?
- Je le hais comme vous haïssez Dieu.
- Eh! qu’aimes-tu donc, extraordinaire étranger?
- J’aime les nuages… les nuages qui passent… là-bas… là-bas…
les merveilleux nuages!


Scheme A ABXCCDXXDABB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111111111111111 1111111111111 110 1111101101111111 1100 1111010111 11 1111111 1 10111111 11110101 101111111111 111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 592
Words 111
Sentences 15
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 12
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 188
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified by davidb on March 08, 2023

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. more…

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