Analysis of La force du miroir
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
J'étais, indigne, un jour, en la chambre au lit blanc
Où Linda dans la glace admirait sa figure
Et j'emportai, grâce au miroir, en m'en allant,
La première raison de devenir parjure.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 11111111111 1101111110 1111111111 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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