In The Sante Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEG A DHIH JKLK AHMH A CNENCN OPOQOP M RSRS HTCC PUPV C HW HRXH M CCCC YPBPI | A |
- | |
Before I got into my cell | B |
I had to strip my body bare | C |
I heard an ominous voice say Well | B |
Guillaume what are you doing here | D |
- | |
Lazarus steps into the ground | E |
Not out of it as he was bid | F |
Adieu Adieu O singing round | E |
Of years and girls the life I led | G |
- | |
- | |
II | A |
- | |
I'm no longer myself in here | D |
I know | H |
I'm number fifteen in the eleventh | I |
Row | H |
- | |
The sunlight filters downward through | J |
The panes | K |
And on these lines bright clowns alight | L |
Like stains | K |
- | |
They dance under my eyes while my | A |
Ears follow | H |
The feet of one whose feet above | M |
Sound hollow | H |
- | |
- | |
III | A |
- | |
In a bear pit like a bear | C |
Every morning round I tramp | N |
Round and round and round and round | E |
The sky is like an iron clamp | N |
In a bear pit like a bear | C |
Every morning round I tramp | N |
- | |
In the next cell at the sink | O |
Someone lets the water run | P |
With his bunch of keys that clink | O |
Let the goaler go and come | Q |
In the next cell at the sink | O |
Someone lets the water run | P |
- | |
- | |
IV | M |
- | |
How bored I am between bare wall and wall | R |
Whose colour pales and pines | S |
A fly on the paper with extremely small | R |
Steps runs across these lines | S |
- | |
What will become of me O God Who know | H |
My pain Who gave it me | T |
Have pity on my dry eyes and my pallor | C |
My chair which creaks and is not free | C |
- | |
And all these poor hearts beating in this prison | P |
And Love beside me seated | U |
Pity above all my unstable reason | P |
And this despair which threatens to defeat it | V |
- | |
- | |
- | |
V | C |
- | |
How long these hours take to go | H |
As long as a whole funeral | W |
- | |
You'll mourn the time you mourned you know | H |
It will be gone too soon like all | R |
Time past | X |
too fast too long ago | H |
- | |
- | |
VI | M |
- | |
I hear the noises of the city | C |
In the turning world beyond me | C |
I see a sky which has no pity | C |
And bare prison walls around me | C |
- | |
The daylight disappears and now | Y |
A lamp is lit within the prison | P |
We're all alone here in my cell | B |
Beautiful light Beloved reason | P |
Guillaume Apollinaire
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about In The Sante poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
Best Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire