Analysis of Veille
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Pipes de nuit pipes du jour
Tout l'opium ô chevelures
Les cheveux bruns de mon amour
Et ces lenteurs tandis que dure
L'éveil des monstres tour à tour
| Scheme | ABAAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 111001 111111 111111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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