Analysis of L'Adieu
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
J'ai cueilli ce brin de bruyère
L'automne est morte souviens-t'en
Nous ne nous verrons plus sur terre
Odeur du temps Brin de bruyère
Et souviens-toi que je t'attends
| Scheme | ABCAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 11111111 1011111 11111110 1111111 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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