Analysis of La Jarretière
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Cette vipère de buisson
D’une grosseur surnaturelle
Jarretiérait la pastourelle
Qui donnait, un jour de moisson.
Au froid de ce vivant glaçon,
Elle ouvrit l’œil et vit sur elle
Cette vipère de buisson
D’une grosseur surnaturelle.
Comment oublier la façon
Dont la mignonne enfant si frêle,
Pâle, du bout de mon ombrelle,
Désenroula sans un frisson
Cette vipère de buisson !
| Scheme | ABba abAB abbaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Rondel |
| Metre | 11111 111 1111 111111 1111111 11111111 11111 111 101111 1111110 1011111 11111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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