Analysis of Tour

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Au Nord au sud
Zénith Nadir
Et les grands cris de l'Est
L'Océan se gonfle à l'Ouest
La Tour à la Roue
S'adresse


Scheme ABAABC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1110 11111101 11111 1111 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 118
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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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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