Analysis of La Vipère
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Pauvre serpent, montre ta tête
Aplatie et triangulaire.
Par ce soleil caniculaire
Dors en paix, formidable bête !
Tu siffles comme une tempête,
Mais j’ai pitié de ta colère.
Pauvre serpent, montre ta tête
Aplatie et triangulaire !
C’est bien doux qu’ici je m’arrête :
Sans te bénir, je te tolère,
Car aujourd’hui l’amour m’éclaire,
Et j’en ai l’âme toute en fête.
Pauvre serpent ! montre ta tête !
| Scheme | ABba abAB abbaa |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101111 111 11011 111100011 111111 1111111 1101111 111 1111111 11111111 11111 111111111 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 424 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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