Analysis of 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
| Scheme | ABAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 1101111111 1011111111 11110111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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