This is an analysis of the poem To George Sterling: A Valediction that begins with:
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Farewell, a late farewell! Tearless and unforgetting,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbXbXbacXc X adadedfefe X gegebXXhXX X hihiXiXbgb a fefefeXafa a XbbbbbXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,1,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101111011000 010111 1011011101100 101000110101 000101111000 111101110001 110100011101 101110010101 010111010100 11001001 1 111110011001 1001110 110001110001 0011010111010 110101011101 01010101110010 010111011101 0100111110111 111111000111 1110011 1 111101110101 010101 1111010100001 010101001001 110101000101 1111010111010 011001011110 00101100011010 11010000100 110110 1 1111110010110 110111 1000001111010 111100010011 1101010001100 111011111101 1111011101100 110011100100 0101010011010 011001 1 111001010101 100101 11100001101 01111000110101 111101000110 110001010100 1101010101000 11010100101001 110101010101 101001 1 010101110100 110111 110100010101 110011010111 11110101011010 010101010101 110011011110 110001010001 1111011010100 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; naught, to, and, of, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word re is repeated.
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