The Ninth Secret Poem

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



I worship your fleece which is the perfect triangle
        Of the Goddess
I am the lumberjack of the only virgin forest
        O my Eldorado
I am the only fish in your voluptuous ocean
        You my lovely Siren
I am the climber on your snowy mountains
        O my whitest Alp
I am the heavenly archer at your beautiful mouth
        O my darling quiver
I am the hauler of your midnight hair
        O lovely ship on the canal of my kisses
And the lilies of your arms are beckoning me
        O my summer garden
The fruits of your breast are ripening their honey for me
        O my sweet-smelling orchard
And I am raising you O Madeleine O my beauty above the earth
        Like the torch of all light

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEEFGHIJKLELMNO
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 698
Words 128
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18

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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