Analysis of Carte postale
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Je t'écris de dessous la tente
Tandis que meurt ce jour d'été
Où floraison éblouissante
Dans le ciel à peine bleuté
Une canonnade éclatante
Se fane avant d'avoir été
| Scheme | AAAAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Monorhyme |
| Metre | 1111111 1111111 111 10111 111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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