Analysis of L'Ombre nue
Henri de Regnier 1864 (Honfleur) – 1936 (Paris)
J’ai fait de mon Amour cette blanche statue.
Regarde-la. Elle est debout, pensive et nue,
Au milieu du bassin où la mire son eau
Qui l’entoure d’un double et symbolique anneau
De pierre invariable et de cristal fidèle.
La colombe en passant la frôle de son aile,
Car l’Amour est vivant en ce marbre veiné
Qui de son long regard que rien n’a détourné,
Contemple, autour de lui dans l’eau proche apparue,
La fraîcheur de son ombre humide, vaine et nue.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 1110111011 10111011111 11110111 10101000111010 101011110111 110111111 11110111111 111101111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 81 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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