Analysis of Le Petit Coq

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



Mon âme veuve les jalouse
La poulette et le petit coq.
— En plein soleil, près d’un vieux soc,
Tous deux vont picotant la bouse,

En vain je vis avec la blouse,
Avec le chêne, avec le roc :
Mon âme veuve les jalouse
La poulette et le petit coq.

— Chemin faisant, sur la pelouse.
Que de fois, avec l’air ad hoc,
Le petit mari — toc toc toc
Caresse la petite épouse !
Mon âme veuve les jalouse.


Scheme ABba abAB abbaA
Poetic Form Rondel 
Metre 11111 1110101 110111111 111111 1111111 1011101 11111 1110101 11111 1111111 01010111 101011 11111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 405
Words 80
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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