Analysis of Le Feu follet

Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)



Le petit feu follet qui danse devant moi,
A l’air trop gracieux pour être un mauvais guide.
Je ne lui prête aucune intention perfide,
Et je crois sa lueur pleine de bonne foi.

Rebrousser chemin ? non ! me défier ? pourquoi ?
C’est ma route, et d’ailleurs le sol n’est pas humide.
Le petit feu follet qui danse devant moi
A l’air trop gracieux pour être un mauvais guide.

Et, marchant au lointain roulement d’un convoi,
J’abandonne mon âme à son rêve morbide
Quand je plonge à mi-corps dans un bourbier liquide ;
Et plus j’enfonce, plus il raille mon effroi,
Le petit feu follet qui danse devant moi !


Scheme ABbc xbAB cbbxA
Poetic Form
Metre 010111111 011111111 11101110101 111111111 1111111 1111101111 010111111 011111111 11011111 1111111 1111111101 11111111 010111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 621
Words 107
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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