This is an analysis of the poem Good-By that begins with:
God be with you! through my losing
And my grieving, shall I say?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xbcb dede dfXf Xabcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011110 1110111 11101110 1001101 11101010 1001101 00111010 0010101 00101110 0010101 00100110 01011011 00100011 0010101 00101010 10110101 10111110 1011111 10000010 1001111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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