Analysis of L'Urne

Henri de Regnier 1864 (Honfleur) – 1936 (Paris)



Sépulcre de silence et tombeau de beauté,
La Tristesse conserve en cendres dans son urne
Les grappes de l’automne et les fruits de l’été,
Et c’est ce cher fardeau qui la rend taciturne,

Car sa mémoire encore y retrouve sa vie
Et l’heure disparue avec la saison morte
Et tout ce dont jadis, enivrée et fleurie,
Elle a senti l’odeur féconde, saine et forte ;

Et c’est pourquoi tu vas, en ta sombre jeunesse,
Portant en l’urne d’or les cendres de l’été
Et que je te salue, ô passante, Tristesse,
Sépulcre de silence et tombeau de beauté !


Scheme Abab xaxa cacA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111101111 110111111 1111111111 111111111 111111111 11111101 111111111 1011111110 111111111 111111111 111110101 111101111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 562
Words 98
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 135
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Henri de Regnier

Henri-François-Joseph de Régnier was a French symbolist poet, considered one of the most important of France during the early 20th century. more…

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