Analysis of Le vent nocturne

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Oh ! les cimes des pins grincent en se heurtant
    Et l'on entend aussi se lamenter l'autan
    Et du fleuve prochain à grand'voix triomphales
    Les elfes rire au vent ou corner aux rafales
    Attys Attys Attys charmant et débraillé
    C'est ton nom qu'en la nuit les elfes ont raillé
    Parce qu'un de tes pins s'abat au vent gothique
    La forêt fuit au loin comme une armée antique
    Dont les lances ô pins s'agitent au tournant
    Les villages éteints méditent maintenant
    Comme les vierges les vieillards et les poètes
    Et ne s'éveilleront au pas de nul venant
    Ni quand sur leurs pigeons fondront les gypaètes


Scheme ABCCDDEEAACAC
Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 11111111 111111 1111111011 1111111 11111111111 1111111111 111111111101 1111111 11001111 111111111 111111111 1111101111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 642
Words 105
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 461
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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