Analysis of Autumn Crocuses
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
The meadow is poisonous but pretty in the autumn
The cows that graze there are slowly poisoned
Meadow-saffron the colour of lilac and of shadows
Under the eyes grows there your eyes are like those flowers
Mauve as their shadows and mauve as this autumn
And for your eyes' sake my life is slowly poisoned
Children from school come with their commotion
Dressed in smocks and playing the mouth-organ
Picking autumn crocuses which are like their mothers
Daughters of their daughters and the colour of your eyelids
Which flutter like flowers in the mad breeze blown
The cowherd sings softly to himself all alone
While slow moving lowing the cows leave behind them
Forever this great meadow ill flowered by autumn
Scheme | ABXCAB DDCXE EXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001100010 0111111010 1100111011 1001111111110 1111011110 011111111010 1011111010 1010100110 1010100111110 101110001111 11011000111 01110101101 111010011011 010111110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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