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
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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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. more…

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