Analysis of La Mère

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



En tricotant sous le feuillage
La bonne vieille me disait :
« D’puis l’temps q’mon gars est mort, c’que c’est !
Je m’figur’ qu’il est en voyage,

Qu’un soir il est parti ben loin,
Tout env’loppé, jaun’ comme un’ cire,
Malgré ça, j’pens’ qu’i’va m’écrire,
Qu’i’ m’sent dans la peine et l’besoin.

Tous les jours, je m’répèt’ : C’est d’main,
Qu’i’ m’apparaîtra sus mon ch’min,
Qu’i’ cogn’ra pour que j’youv’ la porte.

L’croir’ mort ? Non ! j’aim’ mieux l’croire ingrat,
M’imaginer qu’i’n’reviendra,
Que lorsqu’à mon tour je s’rai morte !  


Scheme ABBA CDDC CCB BDB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 11111 111101111 11101110 111011011 111111 101111 1111111 1111101111 111111 1111111 1111111 11 1111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 628
Words 87
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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