Analysis of Never To See Or Hear Her

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



Never to see or hear her,
never to name her aloud,
but faithfully always to wait for her
and love her.

To open my arms and, tired of waiting,
to close them on nothing,
but still always to stretch them out to her
and to love her.

To only be able to stretch them out to her,
and then to be consumed in tears,
but always to shed these tears,
always to love her.

Never to see or hear her,
never to name her aloud,
but with a love that grows ever more tender,
always to love her. Always!


Scheme ABaa ccaa adda ABax
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 1011110 1011001 110011110 010 11011010110 111110 111111110 0110 110110111110 01110101 111111 1110 1011110 1011001 11011110110 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 475
Words 101
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 23, 2023

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Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme

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

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