Analysis of La Fontaine
La fontaine du val profond
Luit au bas des vieilles tourelles
Dont les toitures se défont
Et dont les girouettes grêles
Vont et viennent, viennent et vont.
Jamais la mousse de savon
N’a troublé ses plissements frêles :
Elle est limpide jusqu’au fond,
La fontaine.
Sur ses bords les saules me font
Des éventails et des ombrelles ;
Et là, parmi les sauterelles,
J’arrête mon pas vagabond
Pour lire Virgile et le bon
La Fontaine.
| Scheme | ababa xbaC abbaxC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | ~Rondeau |
| Metre | 101111 111111 111111 111111 111111 111110 111111 101111 101 1111111 11111 11111 1111100 1101101 101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 465 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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