Analysis of Le fou

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



Je rêve un pays rouge et suant le carnage,
Hérissé d'arbres verts en forme d'éteignoir,
Des calvaires autour, et dans le voisinage
Un étang où pivote un horrible entonnoir.

Farouche et raffolant des donjons moyen âge,
J'irais m'ensevelir au fond d'un vieux manoir :
Comme je humerais le mystère qui nage
Entre de vastes murs tendus de velours noir !

Pour jardins, je voudrais deux ou trois cimetières
Où je pourrais tout seul rôder des nuits entières ;
Je m'y promènerais lugubre et triomphant,

Escorté de lézards gros comme ceux du Tigre.
- Oh ! fumer l'opium dans un crâne d'enfant,
Les pieds nonchalamment appuyés sur un tigre !


Scheme ABAB ABAB CCD BDB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111010 11111111 1111101 111111001 1111111 11111111 11101111 101111111 111111111 11111111111 11111111 0111111111 111100111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 651
Words 106
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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