This is an analysis of Le Coucher Du Soleil by Rene Francois Armand Prudhomme.

Si j'ose comparer le déclin de ma vie
A ton coucher sublime, ô Soleil ! je t'envie.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaaX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1110001011 01100101111 1111001010110 11001101010 0110101011110 10011111101 101111111011 01111001101 0111000111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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