This is an analysis of the poem Farewell To Those Times I Knew Too Well that begins with:
Goodbye to those midnights,
And tears that came to fall....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXba Xbcdb eXf dabcf gbcgeXbada
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,3,5,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 111101 110111 110111 11 10111 11101 101111 1011 001101 1010111 1101 1111001001 111111 011111 111 0100110 1111 1111011101 11 11101110 101 11111111 010101 1110101 11 011 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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