Analysis of La Mort du cochon

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



Moi, qui l’avais vu si petit,
Je fus tout chagrin de sa perte,
Et cette pauvre masse inerte
Ne m’inspira nul appétit.

Lorsque chacun se divertit
Et festoya dans l’herbe verte,
Moi, qui l’avais vu si petit,
Je fus tout chagrin de sa perte.

Mais la porchère compatit
A son sort, dans la cour déserte,
Car, en voyant sa bête ouverte,
Ce sanglot de son cœur sortit :
« Moi qui l’avais vu si petit ! »


Scheme AAax aaAA aaaaA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 11101111 11111 11111 1111 11111 1111110 11101111 11111 01111111 1111111 1111111 1111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 410
Words 77
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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