Analysis of Le départ
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Et leurs visages étaient pâles
Et leurs sanglots s'étaient brisés
Comme la neige aux purs pétales
Ou bien tes mains sur mes baisers
Tombaient les feuilles automnales
| Scheme | AABAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111111 1111111 1111111 1111111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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