This is an analysis of the poem Farewell that begins with:
Farewell! I breathe that wonted prayer,
But oh! though countless leagues divide... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efefgaga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11110101 11111111 11110011 10110111 11010111 11111001 11010101 11010101 01011101 11110111 100100101 11110101 1101001001 101111101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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