Analysis of On The Water
Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme 1839 (Paris) – 1907 (Châtenay-Malabry)
The sound of bank and water is all I hear,
The sad resignation of a weeping spring
Or a rock that hourly sheds a tear,
And the birch leaves' vague quivering.
I do not see the river bear the boat along
The flowering shore flits past, and I remain;
And in the watery depths that I skim,
The reflected blue sky flutters like a curtain.
Meandering in their sleep, you might say the waters
Waver, no longer sure where the bank lies:
And the flower thrown in hesitates to choose.
And like this flower, all that man desires
Can settle on the river of my life,
Without teaching me which way my wishes lie.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX BXXBXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110101111 0101010101 101110101 00111100 111101010101 01001110101 0001001111 001011101010 0100011111010 1011011011 0010101011 01110111010 1101010111 01101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 592 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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