Analysis of L'Amazone

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



Sur les grandes bouses de vache
Le soleil met un ton pourpré.
Elle chevauche au fond du pré
Avec un petit air bravache.

Elle effleure de sa cravache
Le cou d’un alezan doré.
Sur les grandes bouses de vache
Le soleil met un ton pourpré.

Mais son long voile bleu la cache,
Je ne puis la voir à mon gré ;
Et mon regard tombe navré,
Et machinalement s’attache
Sur les grandes bouses de vache.


Scheme ABba abAB abbaA
Poetic Form Rondel 
Metre 111111 0011111 111111 111011 11111 01111 111111 0011111 1111111 1111111 110111 111 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 396
Words 76
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Maurice Rollinat

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