Analysis of Le Ver luisant

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



Le petit ver luisant dans l’herbe
S’allume cette fois encor
A la même place ! Le cor
Pleure au loin ; la nuit est superbe.

Au doux âge où l’on est imberbe,
Je l’admirais comme un trésor.
— Le petit ver luisant dans l’herbe
S’allume cette fois encor.

Mais, dira le penseur acerbe :
« Tout ce qui reluit n’est pas or ! »
Moi, je réponds à ce butor,
Que j’aime, en dépit du proverbe,
Le petit ver luisant dans l’herbe.


Scheme ABba abAB abbaA
Poetic Form Rondel 
Metre 0101111 1111 0111101 11111011 11111011 111111 0101111 1111 11011 1111111 111111 11011111 0101111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 440
Words 80
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
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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