Analysis of Prière au printemps

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



Toi qui fleuris ce que tu touches,
Qui, dans les bois, aux vieilles souches
Rends la vigueur,
Le sourire à toutes les bouches,
La vie au coeur ;

Qui changes la boue en prairies,
Sèmes d'or et de pierreries
Tous les haillons,
Et jusqu'au seuil des boucheries
Mets des rayons !

Ô printemps, alors que tout aime,
Que s'embellit la tombe même,
Verte au dehors,
Fais naître un renouveau suprême
Au coeur des morts !

Qu'ils ne soient pas les seuls au monde
Pour qui tu restes inféconde,
Saison d'amour !
Mais fais germer dans leur poussière
L'espoir divin de la lumière
Et du retour !


Scheme AABAB XAAAA XCACA DDBBBB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111110 1111111 111 01111 1111 11011110 111111 111 11111 111 101111 111111 111 1111111 1111 11111111 111111 101 11101111 111111 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 575
Words 103
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 6
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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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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