Analysis of A Farewell
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
Good-bye, good-bye; it is not hard to part!
You have my heart--the heart that leaps to hear
Your name called by an echo in a dream;
You have my soul that, like an untroubled stream,
Reflects your soul that leans so dear, so near -
Your heartbeats set the rhythm for my heart.
What more could Life give if we gave her leave
To give, and Life should give us leave to take?
Only each other's arms, each other's eyes,
Each other's lips, the clinging secrecies
That are but as the written words to make
Records of what the heart and soul achieve.
This, only this we yield, my love, my friend,
To Fate's implacable eyes and withering breath.
We still are yours and mine, though, by Time's theft,
My arms are empty and your arms bereft.
It is not hard to part--not harder than Death;
And each of us must face Death in the end!
Scheme | AXBBXA CDEEDC FGHHGF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111 1111011111 1111110001 11111110101 0111111111 111010111 1111111101 1101111111 1011011101 11010101 1111010111 0111010101 1101111111 110100101001 1111011111 1111001101 11111111011 0111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 810 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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