Analysis of La Sieste
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
En regardant sauter les geais
Sur les hautes branches d’un chêne,
Délivré du spleen qui m’enchaîne.
Béatement je m’allongeais.
Oh ! comme alors je me plongeais
Dans la quiétude sereine,
En regardant sauter les geais
Sur les hautes branches d’un chêne !
Et, sans traiter un des sujets
Dont j’avais la cervelle pleine,
J’attendais que la nuit d’ébène
Eût effacé tous les objets,
En regardant sauter les geais.
| Scheme | ABba abAB abbaA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Rondel |
| Metre | 1101011 11110111 1111111 1111 111111 11111 1101011 11110111 111111 11111 1111111 111111 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 429 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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