Gipsy Love by Arthur Symons: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Gipsy Love that begins with:

The gipsy tents are on the down,
The gipsy girls are here; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAB aXcX cdcd eeaeXABAB
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01011101 010111 101001101001 0010111 11110010 00110100 01111010010 100111 11011111 01001011 1110100101 0111011 11011111 0100101001 1111001010 010111 01011101 010111 101001101001 0010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; gipsy is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word we'd at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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