Analysis of Gone
Henrik Johan Ibsen 1828 (Skien, Telemark) – 1906 (Kristiania)
THE last, late guest
To the gate we followed;
Goodbye -- and the rest
The night-wind swallowed.
House, garden, street,
Lay tenfold gloomy,
Where accents sweet
Had made music to me.
It was but a feast
With the dark coming on;
She was but a guest --
And now, she is gone.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XXAX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 0111 101110 1001 01110 1101 1110 1101 111011 11101 101101 11101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 277 |
Words | 54 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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