Analysis of Hunting Horns
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
Our story’s noble as its tragic
like the grimace of a tyrant
no drama’s chance or magic
no detail that’s indifferent
makes our great love pathetic
And Thomas de Quincey drinking
Opiate poison sweet and chaste
Of his poor Anne went dreaming
We pass we pass since all must pass
Often I’ll be returning
Memories are hunting horns alas
whose note along the wind is dying
| Scheme | ABABACDCECEC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101110 10101010 1101110 1011010 11011010 01011010 10010101 1111110 11111111 1011010 100110101 110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 372 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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