Farewell To My Harp by Thomas Cowherd: poem analysis

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

Farewell my rude Harp and my still ruder Lyre!
For season your tones may not fall on my ear;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaba bcbc dede XXXX fafa ghgh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111101 11011111111 1010110011010 11101001001 110010010010 11100101011 110111110110 11001011011 01101101011 1011110010011 11011001001 111001111001 110011110110 111001011010 1011010110110 11011101001 1011010111001 01010111011 11101101011 11101111001 111110010110 11011001101 110011110010 11101101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

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