Analysis of The Gypsy
Guillaume Apollinaire 1880 (Rome) – 1918 (Paris)
The gypsy knew in advance
Our two lives star-crossed by night
We said farewell to her and then
from that deep well Hope began
Love heavy a performing bear
Danced upright when we wanted
And the blue bird lost his plumes
And the beggars lost their Ave
We knew quite well that we were damned
But hope of love in the street
Made us think hand in hand
Of what the Gypsy did foresee
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101001 10111111 1111001 1111101 11000101 1011110 0011111 0010111 11111101 1111001 111101 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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