This is an analysis of the poem A Woman's Farewell that begins with:
SO with this farewell kiss I taste at last
The all of life; the Future and the Past ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccbddbeebeebffbggbhhb aabeebfXbiib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111111 0101010101 011111 1011011101 1011011101 11 0110111111 0111110001 010111 0101010111 1100110111 11 1111111101 0101010101 010101 1100111101 1111011010 11 1101110111 10011100111 101101 1101110111 1101011111 11 1101111111 1111111101 011101 1101011111 1111000101 11 1111010101 10111010100 111001 1111110101 1111001111 11
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 666
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; but, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, so are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word farewell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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