Analysis of Saltimbanques
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Dans la plaine les baladins
S'éloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans églises
Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en rêvant
Chaque arbre fruitier se résigne
Quand de très loin ils lui font signe
Ils ont des poids ronds ou carrés
Des tambours des cerceaux dorés
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quêtent des sous sur leur passage
| Scheme | AAAA BBCC AAAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11111 111111 11111 1110011 1111111 111111 111111 1111111011 11111111 111111 110101110 11111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 393 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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