Paris

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



J'ai vu Paris dans l'ombre
    Hypogée où l'on riait trop
    Paris une grande améthyste
    Ces soldats belges en troupe
    Vieilles femmes habillées en Perrette
    Après le pot-au-lait
    L'officier-pilote raconte ses exploits
    J'ai entendu la berloque
    Mais quel sourire celui de celui qui eut sursis d'appel illimité
    Ombre de la statue de Shakespeare sur le Boulevard Haussmann
    Laideur des costumes civils des hommes qui ne sont pas partis
    Les peintres travaillaient
    Mon cœur t'adore

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Scheme ABCBCCDECFDCA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 515
Words 75
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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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