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!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified by davidb on March 08, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | A ABXCCDXXDABB |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 111 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 12 |
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