Edgar Poe

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




Edgar Poe fut démon, ne voulant pas être Ange.
Au lieu du Rossignol, il chanta le Corbeau ;
Et dans le diamant du Mal et de l’Étrange
Il cisela son rêve effroyablement beau.

Il cherchait dans le gouffre où la raison s’abîme
Les secrets de la Mort et de l’Éternité,
Et son âme où passait l’éclair sanglant du crime
Avait le cauchemar de la Perversité.

Chaste, mystérieux, sardonique et féroce,
Il raffine l’Intense, il aiguise l’Atroce ;
Son arbre est un cyprès ; sa femme, un revenant.

Devant son œil de lynx le problème s’éclaire :
― Oh ! comme je comprends l’amour de Baudelaire
Pour ce grand Ténébreux qu’on lit en frissonnant !

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB XCXC DDC EEC
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 666
Words 110
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

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