Analysis of L'Habitude
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
La goutte d’eau de l’Habitude
Corrode notre liberté
Et met sur notre volonté
La rouille de la servitude.
Elle infiltre une quiétude
Pleine d’incuriosité :
La goutte d’eau de l’Habitude
Corrode notre liberté.
Qui donc fertilise l’étude
Et fait croupir l’oisiveté ?
Qui donc endort l’adversité
Et moisit la béatitude ?
La goutte d’eau de l’Habitude !
| Scheme | AAaa aaAA aaaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 011010 111101 111110 11111 11 11111 011010 11111 1111 1111 11111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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