Analysis of Deserted Gipsy's Song: Hillside Camp
Violet Nicolson 1865 (Stoke Bishop, Gloucestershire) – 1904 (Madras, Madras Province)
She is glad to receive your turquoise ring,
Dear and dark-eyed Lover of mine!
I, to have given you everything:
Beauty maddens the soul like Wine.
"She is proud to have held aloof her charms,
Slender, dark-eyed Lover of mine!
But I, of the night you lay in my arms:
Beauty maddens the sense like Wine!
"She triumphs to think that your heart is won,
Stately, dark-eyed Lover of mine!
I had not a thought of myself, not one:
Beauty maddens the brain like Wine!
"She will speak you softly, while skies are blue,
Dear, deluded Lover of mine!
I would lose both body and soul for you:
Beauty maddens the brain like Wine!
"While the ways are fair she will love you well,
Dear, disdainful Lover of mine!
But I would have followed you down to Hell:
Beauty maddens the soul like Wine!
"Though you lay at her feet the days to be,
Now no longer Lover of mine!
You can give her naught that you gave not me:
Beauty maddened my soul like Wine!
"When the years have shown what is false or true:
Beauty maddens the sight like Wine!
You will understand how I cared for you,
First and only Lover of mine!"
| Scheme | abaB cbcb dbdB ebeB fbfB gbgb ebeb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111011101 10111011 11110110 1010111 1111110101 10111011 1110111011 1010111 1101111111 10111011 111011111 1010111 1111101111 10101011 1111100111 1010111 1011111111 10101011 1111101111 1010111 1111010111 11101011 1110111111 1011111 1011111111 1010111 110111111 10101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 1,076 |
| Words | 213 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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