Analysis of Les Demoiselles
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Rasant la mare de leurs ailes
Que le soleil rend irisées,
Elles ne sont jamais posées,
Les inconstantes demoiselles.
Plus vives que les hirondelles,
Elles voltigent, d’air grisées,
Rasant la mare de leurs ailes
Que le soleil rend irisées.
— « C’est l’image des infidèles
« Par qui nos âmes sont brisées ! »
Ainsi je songe à mes croisées
En regardant les toutes belles
Rasant la mare de leurs ailes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 10011101 111111 111 11111 11111 111111 10011101 11111 1111111 111111 11111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 414 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 5 |
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) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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