Saltimbanques

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Dans la plaine les baladins
S'éloignent au long des jardins
Devant l'huis des auberges grises
Par les villages sans églises

Et les enfants s'en vont devant
Les autres suivent en rêvant
Chaque arbre fruitier se résigne
Quand de très loin ils lui font signe

Ils ont des poids ronds ou carrés
Des tambours des cerceaux dorés
L'ours et le singe animaux sages
Quêtent des sous sur leur passage

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAAA BBCC AAAX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 393
Words 70
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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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