Analysis of Les récoltes

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



Sitôt que le soleil dans le matin luisait,
Comme un éclat vermeil sur un saphir immense,
Que dans l'air les oiseaux détaillaient leur romance,
Lu ferme tout entière au travail surgissait.

Un va-et-vient, mêlé d'appels hâtifs bruissait,
Et les bêtes de cour, en farfouille, en démence,
Courant, sautant, volant, mêlaient d'accoutumance,
Leurs cris et leur folie à ce bruit qui haussait.

Et dès l'aube, on partait ensemble au long des haies,
Sarcler des champs de lin, entourés de saulaies,
Couper, tasser, rentrer le foin par chariots.

Là-haut, chantaient pinsons, tarins et loriots,
Les plaines embaumaient au loin ; et gars et gouges
Tachaient les carrés verts de camisoles rouges.


Scheme ABXA ABBA BBX BBB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011011 111111101 11111111101 111111011 1111111111 11111111111 1011111 111111111 11111110101111 111111111 1011011100 1111111 111111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 702
Words 110
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 132
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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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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