Tristesse d'une étoile

Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)



Une belle Minerve est l'enfant de ma tête
    Une étoile de sang me couronne à jamais
    La raison est au fond et le ciel est au faîte
    Du chef où dès longtemps Déesse tu t'armais

    C'est pourquoi de mes maux ce n'était pas le pire
    Ce trou presque mortel et qui s'est étoilé
    Mais le secret malheur qui nourrit mon délire
    Est bien plus grand qu'aucune âme ait jamais celé

    Et je porte avec moi cette ardente souffrance
    Comme le ver luisant tient son corps enflammé
    Comme au cœur du soldat il palpite la France
    Et comme au cœur du lys le pollen parfumé

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 24, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CXCX BDBD
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 597
Words 106
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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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