Analysis of Les balles
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
De nos ruches d'acier sortons à tire-d'aile
Abeilles le butin qui sanglant emmielle
Les doux rayons d'un jour qui toujours renouvelle
Provient de ce jardin exquis l'humanité
Aux fleurs d'intelligence à parfum de beauté
| Scheme | AAABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 101111 111111111 1111011 1110100111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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