Analysis of Tout Homme A Ses Douleurs

Andre Marie de Chenier 1762 (Constantinople) – 1794 (Paris)



Tout homme a ses douleurs. Mais aux yeux de ses frères
Chacun d'un front serein déguise ses misères.
Chacun ne plaint que soi. Chacun dans son ennui
Envie un autre humain qui se plaint comme lui,
Nul des autres mortels ne mesure les peines,
Qu'ils savent tous cacher comme il cache les siennes;
Et chacun, l'oeil en pleurs, en son coeur douloureux
Se dit: 'Excepté moi, tout le monde est heureux,'
Ils sont tous malheureux. Leur prière importune
Crie et demande au ciel de changer leur fortune,
Ils changent; et bientôt, versant de nouveaux pleurs,
Ils trouvent qu'ils n'ont fait que changer de malheurs.


Scheme AABCAAAABDAA
Poetic Form
Metre 110111111111 1111111111 11111111010 1111111110 11111111 111111111 111111111 11011101011 11111111 11111110110 111111111 1111111011
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 609
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 471
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Andre Marie de Chenier

André Marie Chénier was a French poet of Greek and Franco-Levantine origin, associated with the events of the French Revolution of which he was a victim. His sensual, emotive poetry marks him as one of the precursors of the Romantic movement. His career was brought to an abrupt end when he was guillotined for supposed "crimes against the state", just three days before the end of the Reign of Terror. Chénier's life has been the subject of Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier and other works of art. more…

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