Analysis of Rondeau du printemps

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



Des pêchers roses, tous en chœur
Embaument les vignes désertes ;
Le battoir fait son bruit claqueur
Au bord des mares découvertes,
Et la nuit perd de sa longueur.

Le vent qui n’a plus de rigueur
Éparpille en souffles alertes
La contagieuse langueur
      Des pêchers roses.

L’Amour sourit, tendre et moqueur,
Car bientôt, dans les herbes vertes,
Œil mi-clos, lèvres entr’ouvertes,
Plus d’une aux bras de son vainqueur
Va commettre de tout son cœur
      Des péchés roses.


Scheme ABABA XBAB ABBAAB
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 11111 011111 111111 1111111 01111101 1111 111 11110 11111 1111111 111111 1111111 1111111 111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 485
Words 78
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 6
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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