Analysis of Notre-Dame la Mort
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
C’est l’éternelle Dame en blanc
Qui voit sans yeux et rit sans lèvres,
Cœurs de lions et cœurs de lièvres,
Chacun n’y songe qu’en tremblant.
Elle emmène de but en blanc
Les robustes comme les mièvres :
C’est l’éternelle Dame en blanc
Qui voit sans yeux et rit sans lèvres.
Nous avons beau faire semblant.
De gambader comme des chèvres :
Dans nos ivresses, dans nos fièvres,
Toujours passe un spectre troublant :
C’est l’éternelle Dame en blanc.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 111111111 11110111111 11111 1111111 111111 111111 111111111 11111 111111 1111111 111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 469 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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