Analysis of L'Éléphant
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Comme un éléphant son ivoire,
J'ai en bouche un bien précieux.
Pourpre mort !.. J'achète ma gloire
Au prix des mots mélodieux.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 11111111 111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 136 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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