Analysis of Farewell

Enid Derham 1882 (Hawthorn) – 1941



I LEAVE the world to-morrow,—  
 What news for Fairyland?  
I’m tired of dust and sorrow  
 And folk on every hand.  

A moon more calm and splendid          
 Moves there through deeper skies,  
By maiden stars attended  
 She peaces goddes-wise.  

And there no wrath oppresses,  
 And there no teardrops start,          
There cool winds breathe caresses,  
 That soothe the weary heart.  

The wealth the mad world follows  
 Turns ashes in the hand  
Of him who sees the hollows          
 And glades of Fairyland.  

And pine boughs sigh no sorrow  
 Where fairy rotas play,—  
I leave the world to-morrow  
 For ever and a day.


Scheme Abab cdcd efef gbgb ahAh
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1101110 11110 11011010 0111001 0111010 111101 1101010 1111 0111010 01111 1111010 110101 0101110 110001 1111010 01110 0111110 11011 1101110 110001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 629
Words 103
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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