Balzac

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



Balzac est parmi nous le grand poète en prose,
Et jamais nul esprit sondeur du gouffre humain,
N’a fouillé plus avant la moderne névrose,
Ni gravi dans l’Art pur un plus âpre chemin.

D’un siècle froid, chercheur, hystérique et morose
Il a scruté le ventre et disséqué la main ;
Et son œuvre est un parc sensitif où la rose
Fait avec l’asphodèle un ténébreux hymen.

Mineur amer, piochant la houille des idées,
Il est le grand charmeur des âmes corrodées
Par le chancre du spleen, du doute et du remord ;

Et la société, ridicule et tragique,
Mire ses passions dans ce cristal magique,
Double comme la vie et nu comme la mort.
  

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XBAB CCD EED
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 646
Words 114
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

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