Analysis of Gypsy Girl

Riaan Smit 1988 (Windhoek)



Go on my gypsy girl
Fly free
And on the end of your journey
Won't you fly back to me
Though the road to happiness, is paved in sin
You’ll spread love and joy
Wherever you’ve been

So live each day, as if its your last,
Never feel regrets for your beautiful past
Take a piece of my heart along on your journey

There's a sign on the crossroads it goes in a number of ways
If you don't know where you’re going you won't know which road to take
If you find yourself alone and out in the rain
Think of me gypsy, I’ll be singing your name

When the sun is reborn you’ll embrace the dawn,
Not many have felt this before

Everywhere that you go you will meet so many faces
People will love you for all that you are
And everyone will remind you of so many places
you'll feel like home Really isn't so far
For everywhere will become your home
Who wouldn't want you for their own?

You go into a bar and you ask for a smoke
They give you a choice between acid or coke
But you’ll get by with just but a smile
And god I haven't seen that in a while

All of your stories will be written in song
For the road, is where you belong


Scheme XAAABXB CCA XXXX XX DEDEXX FFGG HH
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 11 01011110 111111 10111001101 11101 01011 111111111 10101111001 101111011110 10110111001011 111111101111111 111010101001 11110111011 10111110101 11011101 1011111111010 1011111111 0101011111010 1111101011 11010111 11011111 110101011101 11101011011 111111101 0111011001 11110111001 10111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,127
Words 236
Sentences 2
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 7, 3, 4, 2, 6, 4, 2
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 123
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Written on December 01, 2017

Submitted by tribeone_b on January 04, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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