Analysis of Farewell to the Farm
Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 (Edinburgh) – 1894 (Vailima, Samoa)
The coach is at the door at last;
The eager children, mounting fast
And kissing hands, in chorus sing:
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
To house and garden, field and lawn,
The meadow-gates we swang upon,
To pump and stable, tree and swing,
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
And fare you well for evermore,
O ladder at the hayloft door,
O hayloft where the cobwebs cling,
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
Crack goes the whip, and off we go;
The trees and houses smaller grow;
Last, round the woody turn we sing:
Good-bye, good-bye, to everything!
Scheme | aabB xxbB ccbB ddbB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01110111 01010101 01010101 1111110 11010101 0111101 11010101 1111110 0111110 1101011 111011 1111110 11010111 01010101 11010111 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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