Analysis of Ici-bas
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
Ici-bas tous les lilas meurent,
Tous les chants des oiseaux sont courts ;
Je rêve aux étés qui demeurent
Toujours...
Ici-bas les lèvres effleurent
Sans rien laisser de leur velours ;
Je rêve aux baisers qui demeurent
Toujours...
Ici-bas tous les hommes pleurent
Leurs amitiés ou leurs amours ;
Je rêve aux couples qui demeurent
Toujours...
| Scheme | abaB abaB abaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 1111111 11111111 1 111111 111111 1111111 1 111111 111111 11111011 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 343 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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