Analysis of La Maladie

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



La maladie est une femme
Invisible comme un remord
Qui flétrit, tout prêts pour la mort,
La bouche rose et l’œil de flamme.

Elle vous surprend dans sa trame
Et vous plante sa dent qui mord.
La maladie est une femme
Invisible comme un remord.

Qu’elle soit noble, étrange, infâme,
Avec elle on a toujours tort !
Elle vous vide, elle vous tord
La chair, l’esprit, le cœur et l’âme ;
La maladie est une femme.


Scheme ABba abAB cbbcA
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 0100111 1111111111 11111111 111111 1111111 110111 0100111 1110111 111011 111111 111011111 110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 417
Words 76
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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