Analysis of Farewell
For the last time, maybe, upon the knoll
I stand. The eve is golden, languid, sad.
Day like a tragic actor plays his role
To the last whispered word and falls gold-clad.
I, too, take leave of all I ever had.
They shall not say I went with heavy heart:
Heavy I am, but soon I shall be free,
I love them all, but oh I now depart
A little sadly, strangely, fearfully,
As one who goes to try a mystery.
The bell is sounding down in Dedham vale:
Be still, O bell: too often standing here
When all the air was tremulous, fine and pale,
Thy golden note so calm, so still, so clear,
Out of my stony heart has struck a tear.
And now tears are not mine. I have release
From all the former and the later pain,
Like the mid sea I rock in boundless peace
Soothed by the charity of the deep-sea rain….
Calm rain! Calm sea! Calm found, long sought in vain!
O bronzen pines, evening of gold and blue,
Steep mellow slope, brimmed twilit pools below,
Hushed trees, still vale dissolving in the dew,
Farewell. Farewell. There is no more to do.
We have been happy. Happy now I go.
Scheme | ABABB CDCAD EXEXX FGFGG HIHHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1011100101 1101110101 1101010111 1011010111 1111111101 1111111101 1011111111 1111111101 01010101 1111110100 0111010101 1111110101 11011100101 1101111111 1111011101 0111111101 1101000101 1011110101 11010010111 1111111101 1101101101 110111101 1111010001 11111111 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,046 |
Words | 209 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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