Analysis of Tristesse d'une étoile

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Une belle Minerve est l'enfant de ma tête
    Une étoile de sang me couronne à jamais
    La raison est au fond et le ciel est au faîte
    Du chef où dès longtemps Déesse tu t'armais

C'est pourquoi de mes maux ce n'était pas le pire
    Ce trou presque mortel et qui s'est étoilé
    Mais le secret malheur qui nourrit mon délire
    Est bien plus grand qu'aucune âme ait jamais celé

Et je porte avec moi cette ardente souffrance
    Comme le ver luisant tient son corps enflammé
    Comme au cœur du soldat il palpite la France
    Et comme au cœur du lys le pollen parfumé


Scheme ABAB CXCX BDBD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (67%)
Metre 1110111111 1111111 110011110101111 1111111111 11111111101 1111111011 10101111110 0111111111 11111111 10111111 1111111111 11111110101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 597
Words 106
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 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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