This is an analysis of the poem The Wayfarers that begins with:
Now farewell, you kindly folk,
For our rest is ended:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abCcb Xdeed XfbbF ghiih XFccF aeCce cgeeg ehjjh gFccF chaah ecccc chcch Xhkkh Xhcch
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 111010 1000111 1010101 111010 1110111 100110 1110101 1110111 111110 1011101 111010 1111101 10011101 001010 1010101 101110 1011111 1010011 101110 1110111 111010 1000101 1010101 001010 1111101 101110 1000111 1011001 111010 1110101 1010010 1011111 00100101 101110 1111101 101110 1110101 1110101 101010 1111101 111010 10100101 1010101 001010 1111101 100110 0110101 1010101 101110 1010100 101011 1010101 1110101 111110 1010101 101010 0011111 1010101 111010 1010111 1001110 1011111 1010101 101010 1010101 111010 1010101 1011101 1010010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word when at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase tales connects the lines.
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