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

Mother, with unbowed head
Hear thou across the sea... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc adadXX ababee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011 110101 011001 011111 1001010111 1101011111 010101 110111 101001 101101 1101000111 1001111101 111111 010101 101100 011111 1111111101 1101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Farewell;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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