This is an analysis of the poem The Gipsy Trail that begins with:
The white moth to the closing bine,
The bee to the opened clover,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcbc deBe dbBb fgBg gfhf Xheh Xibi Xgig XXXX ebbXXbiBi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01100101 01001010 1010100101 1001110 10011101 100111 100111001 1110101 100100101 1001101 101101001 10101 01100111 011001 101001001001 10100101 01100101 0100101 101001001001 1100101 10010101 110111 100100101 100111 100100100 110111 1011100101 1011101 100100100 100101 10100100111 100111 100100100 100101 10111101001 1011111 100100100 110101 1010111101 00100101 11100111 0100101 101001001001 10100101 01001001001 101101 101101001 10101111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, world, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, ever, out, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, follow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines again is repeated).
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- summary of The Gipsy Trail;
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