Analysis of À la forêt de Gastine

Pierre de Ronsard 1524 (Couture-sur-Loir) – 1585 (La Riche)



Couché sous tes ombrages verts,
Gastine, je te chante
Autant que les Grecs, par leurs vers
La forêt d'Érymanthe :

Car, malin, celer je ne puis
À la race future
De combien obligé je suis
À ta belle verdure,

Toi qui, sous l'abri de tes bois,
Ravi d'esprit m'amuses ;
Toi qui fais qu'à toutes les fois
Me répondent les Muses ;

Toi par qui de l'importun soin
Tout franc je me délivre,
Lorsqu'en toi je me perds bien loin,
Parlant avec un livre.

Tes bocages soient toujours pleins
D'amoureuses brigades
De Satyres et de Sylvains,
La crainte des Naïades !

En toi habite désormais
Des Muses le collège,
Et ton bois ne sente jamais
La flamme sacrilège !


Scheme AXAX ABAB AAAA CBCB AAAA ADAD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 11111 1111 1111111 11111 1101111 1110 11111 111 1111111 11011010 1111111 111110 111111 111111 1111111 1111 11111 101 11111 11111 11111 110011 111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 663
Words 131
Sentences 3
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Modified on March 30, 2023

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