Le printemps jeune et bénévole

Emile Verhaeren 1855 (Sint-Amands) – 1916 (Rouen)



Le printemps jeune et bénévole
Qui vêt le jardin de beauté
Elucide nos voix et nos paroles
Et les trempe dans sa limpidité.

La brise et les lèvres des feuilles
Babillent, et lentement effeuillent
En nous les syllabes de leur clarté.

Mais le meilleur de nous se gare
Et fuit les mots matériels ;
Un simple et doux élan muet
Mieux que tout verbe amarre

Notre bonheur à son vrai ciel :
Celui de ton âme, à deux genoux,
Tout simplement, devant la mienne,
Et de mon âme, à deux genoux,
Très doucement, devant la tienne.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCB CBB DCBD ACECE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 530
Words 96
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 5

Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren was a Belgian poet who wrote in the French language, and one of the chief founders of the school of Symbolism. more…

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