Analysis of Nocturne
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Le ciel nocturne et bas s'éblouit de la ville
Et mon cœur bat d'amour à l'unisson des vies
Qui animent la ville au-dessous des grands cieux
Et l'allument le soir sans étonner nos yeux
Les rues ont ébloui le ciel de leurs lumières
Et l'esprit éternel n'est que par la matière
Et l'amour est humain et ne vit qu'en nos vies
L'amour cet éternel qui meurt inassouvi
Scheme | XAAA XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111111 111111111 111111111 110111011 1111011111 1101110111111 1100111111111 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 395 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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