Analysis of Quand le ciel étoilé couvre notre demeure

Emile Verhaeren 1855 (Sint-Amands) – 1916 (Rouen)



Quand le ciel étoilé couvre notre demeure
Nous nous taisons durant des heures
Devant son feu intense et doux
Pour nous sentir, plus fervemment, émus de nous.

Les grands astres d'argent tracent là-haut leur route ;
Sous les flammes et les lueurs
La nuit étend ses profondeurs
Et le calme est si grand que l'océan l'écoute !

Mais qu'importe que se taise même la mer,
Si dans l'espace immense et clair
Plein d'invisible violence
Nos coeurs battent si fort qu'ils font tout le silence !


Scheme ABBB CBBC AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 10111101 1111011 1110111 11111111 11111011111 111111 11111 101011111111 111111111 1110111 110100100 11111111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 487
Words 84
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. more…

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