This is an analysis of the poem Farewell Ungrateful Traitor that begins with:
Farewell ungrateful traitor,
Farewell my perjured swain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccb dbdbeeeb fbfbaaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 111101 1101010 010101 0100010 0101010 1111010 111101 1100011 010011 1111111 011101 0111100 1011010 1111110 010101 0101010 110001 1101010 010101 1111110 1111110 1100010 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word farewell is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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