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Fête

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)

Feu d'artifice en acier
Qu'il est charmant cet éclairage
Artifice d'artificier
Mêler quelque grâce au courage

Deux fusants
Rose éclatement
Comme deux seins que l'on dégrafe
Tendent leurs bouts insolemment
 IL SUT AIMER
Quelle épitaphe

 Un poète dans la forêt
 Regarde avec indifférence
Son revolver au cran d'arrêt
 Des roses mourir d'espérance

    Il songe aux roses de Saadi
    Et soudain sa tête se penche
    Car une rose lui redit
    La molle courbe d'une hanche

    L'air est plein d'un terrible alcool
    Filtré des étoiles mi-closes
    Les obus caressent le mol
    Parfum nocturne où tu reposes
    Mortification des roses

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDEDAE DCDC DFDF GCGCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 636
Words 99
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4, 4, 5
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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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