Analysis of Des soirs

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



Sous les vitres du hall nitreux que le froid fore
Et vrille et que de mats brouillards baignent de vair,
Un soir, en tout à coup de gel, s'ouvre l'hiver,
Dans le foyer, fourbi de naphte et de phosphore

Qui brûle : et le charbon pointu se mousse d'or
Et le posthume été dans l'or se réitère ;
Il émeraude un bol, il enturquoise un verre
Et multiplie en chatons d'or son âme encor.

Par à travers ce feu qui le détruit, sa joie
Est de faire des fleurs parmi les lustres, vivre !
Et d'allumer sa mort comme une fête. Au loin,

Lorsque tonne l'automne et que le vent disjoint
On serre en noeud ses poings et que gratte le givre...
Ô cette mort que l'on torture et qui flamboie !


Scheme AAAA AXAA XAX XAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111011 1111111111 111111111 1010111111 1101011111 10111111111 11111111 11111111 11011101111 0111111111 1111111111 111110101 11111111101 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 689
Words 130
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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