Analysis of Pour Madeleine Seule

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Lune candide vous brillez moins que les hanches
De mon amour
Aubes que j'admire vous êtes moins blanches
Aubes que chaque jour
J'admire ô hanches si blanches

Il y a le reflet de votre blancheur

Au fond de cet aluminium

Dont on fait des bagues

Dans cette zone où règne la blancheur
O hanches si blanches.


Scheme ABABA B X A BA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111111 111 111011111 1111 101111 11001111 11110100 11111 11111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 315
Words 58
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 1, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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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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