Analysis of La rieuse

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



Ses rires grands ouverts qui si crânement mordent
Sur le fond taciturne et murmurant des prés,
Sont métalliques, frais, liquides, susurrés,
Aux pépiements d'oiseaux ressemblent et s'accordent.

Excités par la danse, ils se gonflent, débordent
En cascades de cris tumultueux, serrés,
De hoquets glougloutants, fous et démesurés,
Qui la virent, la plient, la soulèvent, la tordent.

On la surnomme la Rieuse.
La santé la fait si joyeuse
Qu'elle vit sa pensée en ses beaux yeux ardents ;

Son âme chante tout entière
Dans sa musique coutumière,
Sur le robuste émail de ses trente-deux dents.  


Scheme ABBA ABBA BBB CCX
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 101111111 1111111 1111111 1111111111 10111111 11111111 1111111111 11111 111111 11111111111 111111 11111 101111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 607
Words 95
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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