Analysis of Nocturne
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
L’aboîment des chiens dans la nuit
Fait songer les âmes qui pleurent,
Qui frissonnent et qui se meurent,
À bout de souffrance et d’ennui.
Ils ne comprennent pas ce bruit,
Ceux-là que les chagrins effleurent !
L’aboîment des chiens dans la nuit
Fait songer les âmes qui pleurent.
Mais, hélas ! quand l’espoir s’enfuit,
Et que, seuls, les regrets demeurent,
Quand tous les sentiments nous leurrent,
Alors on écoute et l’on suit
L’aboîment des chiens dans la nuit.
Scheme | AAax aaAA aaaaA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 1101111 111111 11111 111111 111111 10111111 1101111 111111 1111011 11110011 111111 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 480 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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