Analysis of La Torture

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



Mon crâne est un fourneau d’où la flamme déborde :
Martyre opiniâtre et lent comme un remords !
Et je sens dans mes os l’épouvantable horde
Des névroses de feu qui galopent sans mors.

Comme un vaisseau brisé, sans espoir qu’il aborde,
Mon cœur va s’enfonçant dans le gouffre des morts,
Loin du passé qui raille et que le regret borde ;
Et je grince en serrant mes deux poings que je mords !

Je prends un pistolet. Horreur ! ma main le lâche,
Et la peur du néant rend mon âme si lâche,
Que pour me sentir vivre, ― oh ! l’immortalité !

Je me livre en pâture aux ventouses des filles !
Mais, raffinant alors sa tortuosité,
La Fièvre tourne en moi ses plus creusantes vrilles.


Scheme ABAB ABAB CCA BAB
Poetic Form
Metre 111011111111 011111111 111111111 111111111 11111111 11111110111 11111110011 11111111111 1111111011 111111111111 1111111 1111111111 11111 1111111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 697
Words 122
Sentences 10
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 126
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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