Analysis of Le Petit Renardeau

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



Au bord de l’étang, le petit renardeau
Suit à pas de loup sa mère la renarde,
Qui s’en va guettant, sournoise et goguenarde,
Le canard sauvage ou bien la poule d’eau.

— Des nuages bruns couvrent d’un noir bandeau
Le soleil sanglant que l’âpre nuit poignarde.
Au bord de l’étang, le petit renardeau
Suit à pas de loup sa mère la renarde.

Sur un bois flottant qui lui sert de radeau,
Soudain la rôdeuse en tremblant se hasarde ;
Et moi, curieux et ravi, je regarde,
Caché par les joncs comme par un rideau,
Au bord de l’étang le petit renardeau.


Scheme AAaa aaAA aaaaA
Poetic Form
Metre 111110101 111111111 1111111 0011011111 1111111 001111111 111110101 111111111 1111110111 11111111 1111111 111111101 111110101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 565
Words 102
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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