Enfance
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Au jardin des cyprès je filais en rêvant,
Suivant longtemps des yeux les flocons que le vent
Prenait à ma quenouille, ou bien par les allées
Jusqu'au bassin mourant que pleurent les saulaies
Je marchais à pas lents, m'arrêtant aux jasmins,
Me grisant du parfum des lys, tendant les mains
Vers les iris fées gardés par les grenouilles.
Et pour moi les cyprès n'étaient que des quenouilles,
Pour y filer un jour les éternels cyprès.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 442 |
Words | 77 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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