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You who live

Eustache Deschamps 1346 (Champagne) – 1406

You who live now in this world
And which live sovereign in virtue,
It is to you death remembered?
Your fathers are in the deep pit
Eaten worms, without lance and ecu,
You who live now in this world
And which reign sovereign in virtue.

Warn there and carry out round life,
Because while living will be cold and chanu,
Because in the end will die pare and naked.
You who live now in this world
And which reign sovereign in virtue
It is to you death remembered?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AbCxxAB xxxABC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 455
Words 90
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 6
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Eustache Deschamps

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