Analysis of Enfance

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Au jardin des cyprès je filais en rêvant,
Suivant longtemps des yeux les flocons que le vent
Prenait à ma quenouille, ou bien par les allées
Jusqu'au bassin mourant que pleurent les saulaies
Je marchais à pas lents, m'arrêtant aux jasmins,
Me grisant du parfum des lys, tendant les mains
Vers les iris fées gardés par les grenouilles.
Et pour moi les cyprès n'étaient que des quenouilles,
Pour y filer un jour les éternels cyprès.


Scheme AABBBCBBB
Poetic Form
Metre 11011111111 111111101 111111111 11011111 11111111 111111111 11101111111 11111111111 1110111111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 442
Words 77
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 333
Words per stanza (avg) 75
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Modified on April 22, 2023

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Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire was an Italian-born French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic born in Rome, in Italy, to a Polish mother. more…

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