Mirabeau Bridge

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away
 And lovers
 Must I be reminded
Joy came always after pain

 The night is a clock chiming
 The days go by not I

We're face to face and hand in hand
 While under the bridges
 Of embrace expire
Eternal tired tidal eyes

 The night is a clock chiming
 The days go by not I

Love elapses like the river
 Love goes by
 Poor life is indolent
And expectation always violent

 The night is a clock chiming
 The days go by not I

The days and equally the weeks elapse
 The past remains the past
 Love remains lost
Under Mirabeau Bridge the river slips away

 The night is a clock chiming
 The days go by not I

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme Axxx BC xxxx BC xcdd BC xxxA BC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 624
Words 125
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2, 4, 2

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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