Analysis of The Ninth Secret Poem
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
I worship your fleece which is the perfect triangle
Of the Goddess
I am the lumberjack of the only virgin forest
O my Eldorado
I am the only fish in your voluptuous ocean
You my lovely Siren
I am the climber on your snowy mountains
O my whitest Alp
I am the heavenly archer at your beautiful mouth
O my darling quiver
I am the hauler of your midnight hair
O lovely ship on the canal of my kisses
And the lilies of your arms are beckoning me
O my summer garden
The fruits of your breast are ripening their honey for me
O my sweet-smelling orchard
And I am raising you O Madeleine O my beauty above the earth
Like the torch of all light
Scheme | ABCDEEFGHIJKLELMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111100110 1010 1101010101010 11010 11010101010010 111010 11010111010 11101 11010010111001 111010 110101111 110110011110 001011111001 111010 01111110011011 1111010 01110110111100101 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 508 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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