Analysis of Refus de la colombe
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Mensonge de l'Annonciade
La Noël fut la Passion
Et qu'elle était charmante et sade
Cette renonciation
Si la colombe poignardée
Saigne encore de ses refus
J'en plume les ailes l'idée
Et le poème que tu fus
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 111 1111110 1111111 11 1101011 11111 11111111 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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