Analysis of Prière

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



Ah ! Si vous saviez comme on pleure
De vivre seul et sans foyers,
Quelquefois devant ma demeure
Vous passeriez.

Si vous saviez ce que fait naître
Dans l'âme triste un pur regard,
Vous regarderiez ma fenêtre
Comme au hasard.

Si vous saviez quel baume apporte
Au coeur la présence d'un coeur,
Vous vous assoiriez sous ma porte
Comme une soeur.

Si vous saviez que je vous aime,
Surtout si vous saviez comment,
Vous entreriez peut-être même
Tout simplement.


Scheme ABAB ACAC CAXA XXXC
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111111 111111 1111 11 11111111 11111101 11111 111 111111 11111111 111111 111 1111111 111110 111111 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 452
Words 80
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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