This is an analysis of the poem Napoleon's Farewell (From The French) that begins with:

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Farewell to the Land where the gloom of my Glory... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcbdbd Xaeaefgfg XhghXiiii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110011010110 0111000001001 1010111010010 01011001011 1110001110110 1010001001111 1110010111110 01101001001 1 110111110111 11101101001 1110011111111 01011011011 11010011010 01001111001 1010110110110 11101111001 1 110111110010 11011001011 0100110010110 110110010 111110011011 11111101011 1111110011111 11111101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; with, me, in, thy are repeated.

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