Analysis of Les Marnières

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



Les marnières mornes et creuses
Sont les gouffres jaunes des champs.
Jamais de reptiles méchants
Dans ces caves si peu pierreuses !

Mais pour les grenouilles peureuses
Quels marécages alléchants !
Les marnières mornes et creuses
Sont les gouffres jaunes des champs.

L’aube y met ses clartés heureuses,
Ses voix, ses rires et ses chants ;
Et par les beaux soleils couchants,
Elles ont des rougeurs ocreuses,
Les marnières mornes et creuses.


Scheme AAaa aaAA aaaaA
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 111111 111011 111111 11111 111011 111111 111111 1111111 1111111 111111 11111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 445
Words 71
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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