This is an analysis of the poem A Farewell that begins with:
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaB abaB abaBXabaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100001 1101010 11111110 1101110 11011111 01001010 11111110 1101110 11011101 1111010 11110101 1101110 01010111 0101010 11111110 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; here, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
The author used the same word flow at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ever at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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