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La tranchée

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)

Ô jeunes gens je m'offre à vous comme une épouse
Mon amour est puissant j'aime jusqu'à la mort
Tapie au fond du sol je vous guette jalouse
 Et mon corps n'est en tout qu'un long baiser qui mord

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 22, 2023

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Scheme ABAC
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 202
Words 40
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
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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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