This is an analysis of the poem The Gypsy that begins with:
A fortnight before Christmas Gypsies were everywhere:
Vans were drawn up on wastes, women trailed to the fair....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccXXddeeeeeebbaaXcffggee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110110100101 101111101001 1100111101010 1101011111 1100011101010 10110101011110 011111101011 111010000111110 1100111001110 1111011110111 0010101110001 0101110100101 101101111101 1111010010011 1010101110101 110111010101 101101001001001 100111100101 010101101101 1101110010111 110111101000 11001011110100 1111011010101 1111101001011111 1011010010001 011101011101 00101111111101 1001111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1518
- Average number of words per stanza: 286
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ', i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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- summary of The Gypsy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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