This is an analysis of the poem Good-Bye that begins with:
Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art my friend, and I'm not thine. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababaa ccddeeaA bbffdXff aaggbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 11111011 11110111 010110101 110110101 11110101 010100101 00100110 01110101 01010111 01010111 01011101 01111111 01110101 111001111 100011101 010100101 11010101 110101001 10010100 11011101 0110100111 1111101101 111010111 111110101 101011101 1110110101 101011011 1111101101 110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word good at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word home at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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