This is an analysis of the poem Goodbye that begins with:
And so goodbye, my love, my dear, and so goodbye,
E'en thus from my sad heart go hence, depart;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcaXeefgbdbggaheeddXddaa XecdcXXhafXdddffggfdddiijjeXdgdkkll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111111111111 10101111101 1111011111 110101110110 01110110101 1111001101 111101 0101011101 010100111 011111111111 1101010101 111111111101 01111110110 111101101 1101010111 01010001 111101001 11111100 110101011101 1100111101 1111010 11111110010 110101001110 01110101010 1101110 010111 110111 110111111100 11110011111 1101010101 10010101010 01010110101 11110111010 0111010 110100 110111 11110100101 1101111011 01011111010 10110101010 01010101010 01011111010 1111010 111101 110101 100111110111 11011111110 11011111010 11010111110 1101110111 101111 1111010 0111010 111111111111 1101111101 0101110 01111111010 101100111010 1111110101 1111110101 11001011 1110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1280
- Average number of words per stanza: 240
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, the, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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