This is an analysis of the poem Vale that begins with:
Goodbye, sweet friend, goodbye
And all the world must be...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AaabbAAaabbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 110110 011111 110011 111101 111111 111111 111110 011111 110111 111101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 343
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, goodbye are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word goodbye is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines goodbye is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase goodbye connects the lines.
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