Analysis of La Créole

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



Voici l’heure décolorée :
La créole a quitté l’ombrelle
Et bâille dans son hamac frêle
Au bruit de la vague éplorée.

Les chatoiments du clair de lune
Vont et viennent sur sa peau brune :

Cependant que sur l’âpre dune
Les algues soufflent leur parfum.
Plus d’un boa cherchant fortune
Dans la forêt se traîne à jeun,

Et les colibris, un par un,
S’effacent dans le jour défunt.

Gracieux fantôme indistinct,
Elle dort d’un sommeil profond,
Et la couleur de l’air se fond
Avec la couleur de son teint.


Scheme ABBA CC CXCC CD DDDD
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 111011 11111110 1111111 111111 1111111 111111 11111 1110110 11111111 111111 110111 111001 11111 1111111 111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 517
Words 89
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4, 2, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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