Analysis of Gipsy Love
Arthur Symons 1865 (Milford Haven) – 1945
The gipsy tents are on the down,
The gipsy girls are here;
And it's O to be off and away from the town
With a gipsy for my dear!
We'd make our bed in the bracken
With the lark for a chambermaid;
The lark would sing us awake in the morning,
Singing above our head.
We'd drink the sunlight all day long
With never a house to bind us;
And we'd only flout in a merry song
The world we left behind us.
We would be free as birds are free
The livelong day, the livelong day;
And we would lie in the sunny bracken
With none to say us nay.
The gipsy tents are on the down,
The gipsy girls are here;
And it's O to be off and away from the town
With a gipsy for my dear!
Scheme | ABAC dexe fgfg xedx ABAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 0111101 01111 011111001101 101111 111010010 101101 01111010010 1001101 1101111 11001111 0110100101 0111011 11111111 011011 0111001010 111111 0111101 01111 011111001101 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 667 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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