Analysis of Le Lézard
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Sur le vieux mur qui se lézarde,
Que de lézards gris ! ça fourmille !
Quand je m’en vais dans la charmille,
Toutes les fois je les regarde.
L’un d’eux sur ma main se hasarde,
Car moi, je suis de la famille.
Sur le vieux mur qui se lézarde
Que de lézards gris ! ça fourmille !
Je n’ai point la mine hagarde
Pour la bestiole gentille,
Et c’est en paix qu’elle frétille,
Se sachant bien en bonne garde
Sur le vieux mur qui se lézarde.
| Scheme | ABba abAB abbaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Rondel |
| Metre | 10111111 1111101 1111111 111111 1111111 1111111 10111111 1111101 111111 1111 1111111 111111 10111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 447 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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