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 |
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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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