This is an analysis of the poem A Farewell that begins with:
Good-bye, old year, good-bye!
Gentle you were to many as to me,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabccb adadeeffgX cXXchhiieejj kcckgg llddamXjm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,12,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 1010010101 11110101 111000 1111 1001001110 100101 0101010001 11110 110011 11001 10111 01010101 11011111 110001 1001011111 001101 1101110101 11001100 1011010111 11111101 110100010 01010100111 1101110111 0111010001 11010001 1100010011 01000111 1101011110 1101010001 101101 110111 011101 100101101 10010000111 110101 0101010001 111111 11110101 000101 110101 0011010101 100111 0101110101 110101111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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