Analysis of Ô naturel désir...

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Ô naturel désir pour l'homme être roi
On est revêtu de la carte de son royaume
 Les fleuves sont des épingles d'acier semblables à tes veines où roule l'onde trompeuse de tes yeux
Le cratère d'un volcan qui sommeille mais n'est pas éteint
C'est ton sexe brun et plissé comme une rose sèche
Et les pieds dans la mer je fornique un golfe heureux
C'est ainsi que je l'aime la liberté
Et je veux qu'elle seule soit la loi des autres
 Mais je suis l'ennemi des autres libertés


Scheme ABCDECDCC
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111 10111111111 1111111111111111 01111111110111 11111111111 11111111111 111111110 11111111111 111111101
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 484
Words 90
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 359
Words per stanza (avg) 88
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 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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