Analysis of Moonlight
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Mellifluent moon on the lips of the maddened
The orchards and towns are greedy tonight
The stars appear like the image of bees
Of this luminous honey that offends the vines
For now all sweet in their fall from the sky
Each ray of moonlight’s a ray of honey
Now hid I conceive the sweetest adventure
I fear stings of fire from this Polar bee
that sets these deceptive rays in my hands
And takes its moon-honey to the rose of the winds
Scheme | AABCDEFEGH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101101 0100111001 0101101011 111001010101 1111011101 111101110 11101010010 11111011101 1110101011 011110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 349 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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