Analysis of Le coucher du soleil

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



Si j'ose comparer le déclin de ma vie
A ton coucher sublime, ô Soleil ! je t'envie.
Ta gloire peut sombrer, le retour en est sûr :
Elle renaît immense avec l'immense azur.
De ton sanglant linceul tout le ciel se colore,
Et le regard funèbre où luit ton dernier feu,
Ce regard sombre et doux, dont tu couves encore
Le lys que ta ferveur a fait naguère éclore,
Est triste infiniment, mais n'est pas un adieu.


Scheme AABBBACCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011111 011010111 11110110111 11010111011 111110111 10011111111 1011111111 0111101111 011111011101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 422
Words 77
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 306
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme

René François Armand (Sully) Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist.  more…

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