Analysis of The Gipsy Girl

Ralph Hodgson 1871 (Darlington) – 1962



'Come, try your skill, kind gentlemen,
A penny for three tries!'
Some threw and lost, some threw and won
A ten-a-penny prize.

She was a tawny gipsy girl,
A girl of twenty years,
I liked her for the lumps of gold
That jingled from her ears;

I liked the flaring yellow scarf
Bound loose about her throat,
I liked her showy purple gown
And flashy velvet coat.

A man came up, too loose of tongue,
And said no good to her;
She did not blush as Saxons do,
Or turn upon the cur;

She fawned and whined 'Sweet gentleman,
A penny for three tries!'
- But oh, the den of wild things in
The darkness of her eyes!
  


Scheme aBcb xdxd xexe xfxf cBab
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 11111100 010111 11011101 010101 1101011 011101 11010111 11101 11010101 110101 11010101 010101 01111111 011110 11111101 110101 11011100 010111 11011110 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 594
Words 124
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 91
Words per stanza (avg) 24
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ralph Hodgson

Ralph Hodgson, Order of the Rising Sun,was an English poet, very popular in his lifetime on the strength of a small number of anthology pieces, such as The Bull. more…

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