Analysis of Time, You Old Gypsy Man,

Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962



Time, You Old Gypsy Man
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?
All things I'll give you
Will you be my guest,
Bells for your jennet
Of silver the best,
Goldsmiths shall beat you
A great golden ring,
Peacocks shall bow to you,
Little boys sing.
Oh, and sweet girls will
Festoon you with may,
Time, you old gypsy,
Why hasten away?
Last week in Babylon,
Last night in Rome,
Morning, and in the crush
Under Paul's dome;
Under Pauls' dial
You tighten your rein -
Only a moment,
And off once again;
Off to some city
Now blind in the womb,
Off to another
Ere that's in the tomb.
Time, you old gypsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?


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Poetic Form
Metre 111101 1111 11110 1111 11111 11111 1111 11001 1111 01101 11111 1011 10111 1111 11110 11001 11010 1101 100001 1011 10110 11011 10010 01101 11110 11001 11010 11001 111101 1111 11110 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 678
Words 134
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 32
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 510
Words per stanza (avg) 132
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson, Order of the Rising Sun,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. more…

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