Analysis of Le Rat

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



Ma chatte avait peur de cet énorme rat
Qui toutes les nuits dévalisait l’armoire,
Rongeait aussi bien le bois que le grimoire
Et fourrait partout son museau scélérat.

Lourd, il trottinait, fouilleur comme un verrat.
Tout y passait : fil, toile, velours et moire !
Ma chatte avait peur de cet énorme rat
Qui toutes les nuits dévalisait l’armoire.

Il mangeait le cuir, le liège, et cætera,
Renversait les pots et traînait l’écumoire ;
Et même une nuit, si j’ai bonne mémoire,
Je sentis sa queue ignoble sous mon drap.
Ma chatte avait peur de cet énorme rat.


Scheme ABba abAB bbbxA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 1111111 11101101 11111111 1111111 11111111 11111111 1111111 1101011111 11111111 1111111111 1111010111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 573
Words 97
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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