This is an analysis of the poem Gipsy Too that begins with:
If they missed my face in Farmers’ Arms
When the landlord lit the lamp,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdecEfcXcXecE ccccfefE fdfdgeXe XeaegeaE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110101 1011101 1111101101 11110101 1110100101 1010101 1111110111 11100101 1010110101 1010111 11111100111 1010111 1010110101 1010101 11100110111 11100101 1011101111 1011111 1101111111 1111111 11110101111 1111111 111111100111 11100101 1011101111 00110111 1011110101 10110101 0011110101 10101111 101001001001 11100101 10101101101 111101 1110110111 10110101 1010110101 1100101 11111100101 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 379
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; lot, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word too at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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