Analysis of L'espionne

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Pale espionne de l'Amour
    Ma mémoire à peine fidèle
    N'eut pour observer cette belle
    Forteresse qu'une heure un jour

Tu te déguises
        À ta guise
    Mémoire espionne du cœur
    Tu ne retrouves plus l'exquise
    Ruse et le cœur seul est vainqueur

Mais la vois-tu cette mémoire
    Les yeux bandés prête à mourir
    Elle affirme qu'on peut l'en croire
    Mon cœur vaincra sans coup férir


Scheme AXXX BXXBA AAAA
Poetic Form
Metre 11110 111110 1101011 11111 11110 11 111111 11111 110111011 1111111 1111111 11111111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 423
Words 66
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 5, 4
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 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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