This is an analysis of the poem Gipsies that begins with:
There's a scent of pungent wood smoke in the chill October air,
And a jack-o'-lantern glare, a wild and dusky glare,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbcX X ddbbbbb X ddeeecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010110010101 1011101011101 101111100011101 011101 11010101110101 01010101010101 110101011100100 1 1010101011101001 1010101001101 1011000100010101 011101 11010101110101 11111100110001 110101101110111 1 01010101010111 110101110101 11110111110101 011101 01111101110101 110100010101001 110001011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ways, hills, land are repeated).
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- summary of Gipsies;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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