This is an analysis of the poem The Dying Gipsy Smuggler that begins with:
Wasted, weary, wherefore stay,
Wrestling thus with earth and clay?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab cccb ddddb eeeb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101001 10010111 0010101 101010 0111101 1010011 1011111 101010 1111101 1111011 1011111 1010111 111110 1111001 1111111 1111111 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
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