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
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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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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