Analysis of La roue de moulin

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



Les nuages traînant leurs blocs
Autour du soleil qui les troue,
On voit reflamboyer la roue
Du moulin bâti dans les rocs.

Et la chose monstre qui tourne
Noire, en son clair rutilement,
Bat des mousses de diamant
Dans la ruelle où l'eau s'enfourne.

Puis, à mesure qu'il s'éteint,
Des tons de l'astre elle se teint.
Un rosâtre glacis carmine son ébène.

Voici que, grandie à présent,
Rouge, elle tourne dans du sang,
Ayant l'air de brasser une hécatombe humaine !


Scheme ABBA CDDC DDC DXC
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 1101111 11111 10111111 111111 11111 1111100 1111111 111111 1111111 1111010111 11111 111111 111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 473
Words 82
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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