This is an analysis of the poem Farewell that begins with:
Can I see thee stand
On the looming land?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaBccBddBdB eeeefBXaBcBgafg eBcBceBeBeBeBeeeBB ghihibbBgbBB fggjjkkggcgfcBbhBbhBB ieiXiiiBB bffbfbBB llaalggkiiffbfBfffbBffbfBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,18,12,21,9,8,27,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111 10101 1110111 1111 1111111 1110011 1111 1110111 1000101 1111 100011001 1111 110101 011111 11010101 110101 101111 1111 101110110 1010101 1111 1010101 1111 1110111 1010101 1101001 1100101 1110001 1111 1111011 1111 01011101 1010101 1111 10110100101 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1001011101 1111010111 1111010100101 1111 111111 111111 1100010111 10110101 111111 0101 1101010101 0100010101 1111 1100111111 110101 1111 111111 1111110 10101 111111 101010 101010 111111 011101 010101 11111101 11111001 110101 1101010 0010101 1111 1010101 1010101 1111 011101 010111 1111 111111 011101 0101 1011010 11010001100 1101010101 01011101010 1100101110111 1111 111111 111101 01010110010 1101110 01001111111 1101110 0101000101 1111 111111 011101 0001111101 0101111101 11010011 110101 011011 1111000111 100101 0111010101 11101 11111010 11111010 010101001 101110 1111 00101010 00101010 001001010 001 1111 10101010 0101010 01010101 00101010 1111 1111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 129
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; farewell, nearer, dearer, to, ringing, singing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words farewell, away, i, are, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines farewell, singing, ringing are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word farewell at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase farewell connects the lines.
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- summary of Farewell;
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