Analysis of L'adieu du cavalier

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Ah Dieu ! que la guerre est jolie
Avec ses chants ses longs loisirs
Cette bague je l'ai polie
Le vent se mêle à vos soupirs

Adieu ! voici le boute-selle
Il disparut dans un tournant
Et mourut là-bas tandis qu'elle
 Riait au destin surprenant


Scheme ABAB CDCD
Poetic Form Rispetto 
Metre 11111011 111111 111111 0111011 011011 11111 1111111 1110100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 245
Words 45
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 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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