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 !

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD XEAE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 403
Words 72
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme

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

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