Analysis of 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


Scheme ABAB CDEDAE DCDC DFDF GCGCC
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011 1101111 1001 11111110 11 11 11111111 1111 111 11 1111111 1111 10101111 110111 1111011 1111111 111101 11111 11011111001 111110 11101 11111 1110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 636
Words 99
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 4, 4, 5
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 2023

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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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