Analysis of L'Amour
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
L’Amour est un ange malsain
Qui frémit, sanglote et soupire.
Il est plus moelleux qu’un coussin,
Plus subtil que l’air qu’on respire,
Plus provocant qu’un spadassin.
Chacun cède au mauvais dessein
Que vous chuchote et vous inspire
Le Dieu du meurtre et du larcin,
L’Amour.
Il voltige comme un essaim.
C’est le prestigieux vampire
Qui nous saigne et qui nous aspire ;
Et nul n’arrache de son sein
Ce perfide et cet assassin,
L’Amour !
Scheme | ababa abaB xbbaaB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101111 11111111 1011111 111111 1111 111111 1111101 0111111 1 11111 10110 11111101 111111 1111010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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