There Is Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDECFGHIJKJLMNOPQR SJTUMVWXYZA2WB2C2C2D 2CEGE2F2G2XTH2I2J2CF 2K2AL2T| There is this ship which has taken my beloved back again | A |
| There are six Zeppelin sausages in the sky and with night | B |
| coming on it makes a man think of the maggots from which the | C |
| stars might some day be reborn | D |
| There is this enemy submarine slipping up beneath my love | E |
| There are one thousand young pinetrees splintered by the | C |
| bursting of the same shells falling around me now | F |
| There is this infantryman walking by completely blinded by | G |
| poison gas | H |
| There is the obvious fact that all that is happening here was | I |
| hatched a long time ago in the intestinal trenches of Nietzche | J |
| Goethe and the metaphysicians of the town of Cologne | K |
| There is the obvious fact that I'm dying over a letter which | J |
| has thus far been delayed | L |
| There are in my wallet various photos of my beloved | M |
| There are prisoners marching past with anxious faces | N |
| There is this artillery battery with its faithful servants | O |
| hurrying among the guns | P |
| There is the postmaster arriving at a trot on the road beneath | Q |
| the single tree in silhouette | R |
| There is according to rumor a spy who infiltrates somewhere | S |
| near here invisible as the horizon as the horizon blue French | J |
| uniform he has assumed for offensive purposes and in which he | T |
| is now most effectively camouflaged | U |
| There is erect as any lily the bosom of my beloved | M |
| There is this captain anxiously awaiting the latest radio | V |
| dispatch to reach us via transatlantic cable | W |
| There are at midnight these details of soldiers sawing planks | X |
| for coffins | Y |
| There are women somewhere in Mexico pleading with wild cries | Z |
| for more indian corn and maize | A2 |
| There is this Gulf Stream which is so warm and beneficial | W |
| There is this cemetery covered with crosses only five | B2 |
| kilometers away | C2 |
| There are all these crosses everywhere this way that way | C2 |
| There are paradisial persimmons growing on cactus trees in | D2 |
| Algeria | C |
| There are the long hands of my love | E |
| There is this inkwell which I've made from a mm shell I | G |
| saved from shooting | E2 |
| There is my calvary saddle left out in the rain | F2 |
| There are all these rivers blasted off their courses which will | G2 |
| never go back to their banks | X |
| There is the god of Love who leads me on so sweetly | T |
| There is this German prisoner carrying his machine gun across | H2 |
| his shoulders | I2 |
| There are men on earth who've never fought in the war | J2 |
| There are Hindus here who look with astonishment on the | C |
| occidental style of campaign | F2 |
| They meditate gravely upon those who've left this place | K2 |
| wondering whether they'll ever see them again | A |
| Knowing as they do what great progress we've made during this | L2 |
| particular war in the art of invisibility | T |
Guillaume Apollinaire
(1)
Poem topics: , Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
Submit Spanish Translation
Submit German Translation
Submit French Translation
Write your comment about There Is poem by Guillaume Apollinaire
Best Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire