Analysis of Gypsy
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
She dances to the beat of her own drum,
A spirit untethered and free.
Her hair wild like fire,
Her eyes bright like an eclipse.
They call her Gypsy,
Because she has the soul of the wanderer,
Always seeking adventure
And never content to be a mere observer.
She's a traveler through the currents of life,
And a lover of all that's wild and untamed.
The world is her canvas,
Her journey, an ever-changing landscape.
She wanders with the winds,
A nomad of sorts,
Guided by her intuition,
Following the call of her core.
She knows that a gypsy's soul
Is meant to roam and explore,
And with every step she takes,
She finds herself a little further.
And so they let her dance in the moonlight,
And roam through fields of gold,
Because a woman with a gypsy's soul
Can never be caged or directed.
Scheme | XABX ABBB XCXX XXXD EDXB CCEC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011011 010101 011110 0111101 11010 01110110100 110010 010101101010 10100101011 0010111101 011010 010110101 110101 0111 1010010 10001101 111011 1111001 01100111 110101010 011101001 011111 010101011 110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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