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 | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111011 111111 111111 0111011 011011 11111 1111111 1110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| 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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