This is an analysis of the poem Gipsy Song that begins with:
IN the drizzling mist, with the snow high-pil'd,
In the Winter night, in the forest wild,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb X C C ddee X C C ffbb X C C fXgg X CXC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,1,1,4,1,1,1,4,1,1,1,4,1,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00100100111 0010100101 1101011001 110101001 1111 1111 101 111101001 011101001 01111100111 10101001001 1111 1111 101 110111101 1101100111 1100101111 1100110101 1111 1111 101 111110101 10111011110 110110111 1101100111 1111 1111 101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 54
- Average number of words per stanza: 11
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; in, wau, wo, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, i, wille, and are repeated.
The author used the same word wille at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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