Analysis of Shadow

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Here you are beside me again
Memories of my companions killed in the war
The olive-branch of time
Memories that make only a single memory
As a hundred skins make only a single coat
As these thousands of wounds make only a single
newspaper article
Impalpable and ark presence who have assumed
the changing shape of my shadow
an Indian on the watch through all Eternity
shadow you creep beside me
but you do not hear me any more
you will not know any more the divine poems I sing
but I hear you still and see you still
Destinies
Multiple shadows may the sun preserve you
You who love me so much that you will never leave me
And who dance in the sun without stirring the dust
Shadow ink of the sun
Signature of my light
Holder of sorrows
A god that condescends.


Scheme ABCDEFFGHDDBIJKLDMNOPK
Poetic Form
Metre 11101101 100110101001 010111 1001110010100 101011100101 111011110010 10100 101101101 0101111 1100101110100 111011 111111101 11111010011011 111110111 100 1001101011 1111111111011 011001011001 11101 100111 10110 0111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 746
Words 147
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 22
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 612
Words per stanza (avg) 145
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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