Analysis of Les Châtaignes

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



— « Oh ! chère mignonne, tu saignes ! »
Et je suçai son joli doigt,
Comme tout amoureux le doit.
Gare aux piqûres de châtaignes !

Libres des grands et petits peignes,
Ses cheveux flottaient dans l’air froid.
— « Oh ! chère mignonne, tu saignes ! »
Et je suçai son joli doigt.
— « Fi ! c’est mal qu’ainsi tu m’étreignes. »
C’était l’heure où le jour décroît.
— « Laisse-moi bien vite ! on nous voit ! »
— « Ce n’est pas quelqu’un que tu craignes !
« Oh ! chère mignonne, tu saignes. »


Scheme ABba abABabbaA
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 1111111 11101 1111111 111111 111111 111111 1111111 1111111 111101111 1111111 1111111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 528
Words 92
Sentences 17
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 9
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 163
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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