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
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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Arthur Symons

Arthur William Symons, was a British poet, critic and magazine editor. more…

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