Analysis of Good-bye
Emily Pauline Johnson 1861 – 1913
Sounds of the seas grow fainter,
Sounds of the sands have sped;
The sweep of gales,
The far white sails,
Are silent, spent and dead.
Sounds of the days of summer
Murmur and die away,
And distance hides
The long, low tides,
As night shuts out the day.
| Scheme | ABCCB ADEED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 1101110 110111 0111 0111 110101 1101110 100101 0101 0111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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