Analysis of L'Enfer

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



Dans l'enfer, Satan fait étendre
Des barreaux et des grils ardents,
Et sourd, ne voulant rien entendre,
Il dit aux pécheurs imprudents
Que leur âme n’est plus à vendre.

Riant d’un air qui n’est pas tendre,
Pour activer ses intendants,
Il court comme une salamandre
         Dans l’enfer.

Sans jamais se réduire en cendre
Tous les damnés grincent des dents,
Et réclament à cris stridents
Que la mort vienne les reprendre !...
Mais la mort ne peut pas descendre
         Dans l’enfer !


Scheme ababa abaA abbaaA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111011 111111 11111010 111111 111111 1111111 1111 11111 11 1111111 1111111 11111 111111 1111111 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 495
Words 81
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 6
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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