Analysis of La Petite Souris
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
La petite souris blanchette
Glisse d’un pas bref et menu
Autour du bébé presque nu
Qui gigote sur sa couchette.
Et tandis que sur sa manchette
L’enfant bave, rose et chenu,
La petite souris blanchette
Glisse d’un pas bref et menu.
Crac ! la voilà sur la planchette
À deux doigts du frêle ingénu !
Mais le chat noir est survenu :
Elle rentre dans sa cachette,
La petite souris blanchette.
| Scheme | ABba abAB abbaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Rondel |
| Metre | 1011001 1111110 111111 11111 111111 11111 1011001 1111110 111111 1111011 1011011 11111 1011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 396 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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