Analysis of Le Saule
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Tout à l’heure, sous les éclats
Et les souffles de la tempête,
Le saule brandillait sa tête,
Et l’étang cognait ses bords plats.
Avec de mortelles alarmes,
Par ce vent, ces rumeurs, ces feux,
L’arbre tordait ses longs cheveux
Sur l’eau qui balayait ses larmes.
Calme, à présent, l’étang reluit,
Le ciel illumine la nuit,
Et, sans qu’une brise l’effleure,
Le Narcisse des végétaux
Admire encore dans les eaux
Sa figure verte qui pleure.
Scheme | ABBA AAAA BBC AAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1111111 011111 1111111 1111 1111111 11111 111111 111111 01111 11111 0101111 011111 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 454 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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