This is an analysis of the poem A Farewell that begins with:

Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!
You have my heart--the heart that leaps to hear... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccba deXXed fgaagf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101001101 1111011101 1111110001 11111110101 0111111111 1111010111 1111101101 0111111101 1011011101 1101010100 1111010101 0101011101 0100111111 0100100111001 1111111111 1111011101 00110111011 1101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; give, other's, each, my, and are repeated.

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