Analysis of Le Pont Mirabeau

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l'onde si lasse

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine


Scheme Abax CC bbbb CC dxdd CC bbdA
Poetic Form
Metre 10111110 111 1111111 11111111 11111 1111111 11111111 111 011111 1101111 11111 1111111 101111111 10111 111011 1111011 11111 1111111 1111111 111 1111 10111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 648
Words 121
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 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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