Analysis of La Mousse
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
La mousse aime le caillou dur,
La tour que la foudre électrise,
Le tronc noueux comme un fémur
Et le roc qui se gargarise
Au torrent du ravin obscur.
Elle est noire sur le vieux mur,
Aux rameaux du chêne elle est grise,
Et verte au bord du ruisseau pur,
La mousse.
Le matin, au temps du blé mûr,
Ce joli végétal qui frise
Souffle un parfum terreux qui grise :
Il boit les larmes de l’azur,
Et le papillon vibre sur
La mousse.
| Scheme | ababa abaB abbaaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 111011 111111 0111111 101111 1101101 10111011 111111011 1111111 11 01111111 1111111 0111111 1111110 10111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 446 |
| Words | 85 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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