This is an analysis of the poem With Eternity Standing By that begins with:
How shall I bid you good--bye,
Dear, without tears?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbbaccacA cdddceecec fgggffffffXaBbbaaaaaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,21,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1011 101000 0101000 1100100101 110100101 1101011001 11101111 1101110101 00100101 1111001 1101 100011 1111001 11101101 111100101 1110101101 110100111 011100111 10100101 1011111 110100 11110100 010100100 111111111 10101110111 010010111 1011101111 1101110100 111011 11111101 1011 111000 0101000 11111101 10110100 110100101 010110101 1011101110 00100101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 335
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and, that, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines years, queen, it are repeated).
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