Analysis of La grande cascade
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
A cette heure, elle n'est sensible,
La grande cascade du roc,
Qui par son tonnerre d'un bloc,
La nuit la rend toute invisible.
Et, pourtant, sa rumeur compacte
Décèle son bavement fou,
Sa chute à pic, en casse-cou,
Son ruement lourd de cataracte.
Un instant, l'astre frais et pur
Écarte son nuage obscur,
Comme un oeil lève sa paupière ;
Et l'on croit voir, subitement,
Crouler des murs de diamant
Dans un abîme de lumière.
Scheme | ABBA CXXC DDE CCE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111101100 110111 1111111 111110100 11111 110111 111111 11111 1101111 1111 11111111 111111 1111100 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 436 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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