Analysis of La Vieille Croix
Maurice Rollinat 1846 (Châteauroux) – 1903 (Ivry-sur-Seine)
Au bas de la route inclinée,
Où se croisent quatre chemins,
Comme un grand fantôme sans mains
Se dresse une croix surannée.
Mais la farouche abandonnée
Brave encor bien des lendemains,
Au bas de la route inclinée
Où se croisent quatre chemins.
Et la croix manchote et minée,
De l’âge des vieux parchemins,
Épouvante les yeux humains
Comme une potence damnée,
Au bas de la route inclinée.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 111110 1111111 111111 11111 11111 1111111 111110 1111111 111111 1111 11111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 398 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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