Analysis of L'automne

Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)



L'azur n'est plus égal comme un rideau sans pli.
La feuille, à tout moment, tressaille, vole et tombe ;
Au bois, dans les sentiers où le taillis surplombe,
Les taches de soleil, plus larges, ont pâli.

Mais l'oeuvre de la sève est partout accompli :
La grappe autour du cep se colore et se bombe,
Dans le verger la branche au poids des fruits succombe,
Et l'été meurt, content de son devoir rempli.

Dans l'été de ta vie enrichis-en l'automne ;
Ô mortel, sois docile à l'exemple que donne,
Depuis des milliers d'ans, la terre au genre humain ;

Vois : le front, lisse hier, n'est déjà plus sans rides,
Et les cheveux épais seront rares demain :
Fuis la honte et l'horreur de vieillir les mains vides.


Scheme ABBA ABBA CCC DCD
Poetic Form
Metre 110111110111 111101111 111111011 1110111111 1110111101110 1111111111 1011111111 1111101111 111111111 1110111 11111101101 10111010111111 11111101 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 706
Words 124
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme

René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist.  more…

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