Analysis of Gipsies
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
Yet are they here the same unbroken knot
Of human Beings, in the self-same spot!
Men, women, children, yea the frame
Of the whole spectacle the same!
Only their fire seems bolder, yielding light,
Now deep and red, the colouring of night;
That on their Gipsy-faces falls,
Their bed of straw and blanket-walls.
--Twelve hours, twelve bounteous hours are gone, while I
Have been a traveller under open sky,
Much witnessing of change and cheer,
Yet as I left I find them here!
The weary Sun betook himself to rest;--
Then issued Vesper from the fulgent west,
Outshining like a visible God
The glorious path in which he trod.
And now, ascending, after one dark hour
And one night's diminution of her power,
Behold the mighty Moon! this way
She looks as if at them--but they
Regard not her:--oh better wrong and strife
(By nature transient) than this torpid life;
Life which the very stars reprove
As on their silent tasks they move!
Yet, witness all that stirs in heaven or earth!
In scorn I speak not;--they are what their birth
And breeding suffer them to be;
Wild outcasts of society!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1101000111 11010101 10110001 10110110101 11010111 1111101 11110101 11011101111 11010010101 11001101 11111111 010110111 110101011 10101001 010010111 01010101110 0110101010 01010111 11111111 0110110101 1101011101 1101011 11110111 11011101011 0111111111 01010111 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,065 |
Words | 196 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 844 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 191 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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