Analysis of 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.


Scheme ABCB CBB DCBD ACECE
Poetic Form
Metre 01011111 11101011 1111101 111111 11111111 1111 1111111 1011111 111111 1101111 11111 101111 111111 11111 111111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 530
Words 96
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 5
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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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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