Analysis of La Folie
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
La tarentule du chaos
Guette la raison qu’elle amorce.
L’Esprit marche avec une entorse
Et roule avec d’affreux cahots.
Entendez hurler les manchots
De la camisole de force !
La tarentule du chaos
Guette la Raison qu’elle amorce.
Aussi la Mort dans ses caveaux
Rit-elle à se casser le torse,
Devant la trame obscure et torse
Que file dans tous les cerveaux
La tarentule du chaos.
| Scheme | AAaa axAA aaaaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 111011 11111 11111 1111 11111 11110 111011 111111 111101 1110111 111111 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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