This is an analysis of The Three Gipsies by Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau.

Three gipsy men I saw one day
Stretched out on the grass together,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dbdb eded ddXd fgfg hihi
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011111 11101010 1100100101 1101010 010011101 00101010 100111001 01011010 001010111 11011010 110100101 11010010 1100111101 01001010 010010101 011001110 01011111 01001010 1100111000 0101010 11111111 1101011 011111001 1101111 11011111 1101110 11110111 1111110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

their