Analysis of Le long du quai

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



Le long des quais les grands vaisseaux,
Que la houle incline en silence,
Ne prennent pas garde aux berceaux
Que la main des femmes balance.

Mais viendra le jour des adieux ;
Car il faut que les femmes pleurent
Et que les hommes curieux
Tentent les horizons qui leurrent.

Et ce jour-là les grands vaisseaux,
Fuyant le port qui diminue,
Sentent leur masse retenue
Par l'âme des lointains berceaux.


Scheme AAAA ABAB ACCA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0111111 11101110 111111 1111110 110111 1111111 11111 1101011 1111111 10111 1111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 402
Words 70
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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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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