This is an analysis of the poem The Gipsy Soldier that begins with:
The gipsy wife came to my door with pegs and brooms to sell
They make by many a roadside fire and many a greenwood dell,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXXX Xcdd eeff gggg ccddXeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011011011101 11110011101100111 01110101010111 11000101110001 001011101110101 11011111110101 11011111110101 101010001100101 11010111110110 101110111110111 01111111010101 01110101010101 11000101110101 010011011100001 110111010101001 11010101010101 11001101111101 11010101010101 11010101011101 11011101010101 11000101110111 01110101011101 11110101111101 01010101110101 11000101111101 001010101111101 11110101011101 010101101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 240
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with, ', her, of, he, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Gipsy Soldier;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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