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 |
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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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