Analysis of L'idéal
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
La lune est grande, le ciel clair
Et plein d'astres, la terre est blême.
Et l'àme du monde est dans l'air.
Je rêve à l'étoile suprême,
A celle qu'on n'aperçoit pas,
Mais dont la lumière voyage
Et doit venir jusqu'ici-bas
Enchanter les yeux d'un autre âge.
Quand luira cette étoile, un jour,
La plus belle et la plus lointaine,
Dites-lui qu'elle eut mon amour,
O derniers de la race humaine !
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEAE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011011 1111100111 1111101111 1111111 0111111 1111110 11111 010111111 111111 1111111 11011111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 403 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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