Analysis of La Conscience

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



La Conscience voit dans nous
Comme le chat dans les ténèbres.
Tous ! les obscurs et les célèbres,
L’impie et le moine à genoux,

Nous cachons en vain nos dessous
À ses regards froids et funèbres !
La Conscience voit dans nous
Comme le chat dans les ténèbres.

Tant que l’Esprit n’est pas dissous,
Et que le sang bat les vertèbres,
Elle déchiffre nos Algèbres,
Et plonge au fond de nos remous.
La Conscience voit dans nous !


Scheme AAaa aaAA aaaaA
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 10111111 11111111 11011 111111 1011111 110111 10111111 111111 11011111 111111 1111111 110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 437
Words 77
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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