Analysis of La Blanchisseuse du Paradis
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Au son de musiques étranges
De harpes et de clavecins,
Tandis que flottent par essaims
Les cantiques et les louanges,
Elle blanchit robes et langes
Dans l’eau bénite des bassins,
Au son de musiques étranges
De harpes et de clavecins.
Et les bienheureuses phalanges
Peuvent la voir sur des coussins
Repassant les surplis des saints
Et les collerettes des anges,
Au son de musiques étranges.
| Scheme | AAaa aaAA aaaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11111 11111 11111 11111 111111 11111 11111 111010 111111 11111 11111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 392 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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