Analysis of Le Petit Pierrot
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Entre les fils du télégraphe
Un pierrot siffle son refrain.
Le soir tombe : le ciel serein
Est vitreux comme une carafe.
Nul éclair ne met son paraphe
Au fond de l’horizon chagrin.
Entre les fils du télégraphe
Un pierrot siffle son refrain.
Comme il sautille ! Comme il piaffe !
Mais comme il file avec entrain,
Dès que la machine du train
Montre son grand cou de girafe
Entre les fils du télégraphe !
| Scheme | ABba axAB abbaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111111 111101 011011 0111101 111111 111101 10111111 111101 111111 111111 11110111 111111 10111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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