This is an analysis of the poem Goodbye In Fear, Goodbye In Sorrow, that begins with:
‘Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow,
Goodbye, and all in vain, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBAXaBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111010 111101 10010111 100101 110111011 111111 10010111 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; goodbye, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words goodbye, never are repeated.
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