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 |
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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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