Analysis of Goodbye In Fear, Goodbye In Sorrow,
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
‘Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow,
Goodbye, and all in vain,
Never to meet again, my dear -’
‘Never to part again.’
‘Goodbye today, goodbye tomorrow,
Goodbye till earth shall wane,
Never to meet again, my dear -’
‘Never to part again.’
| Scheme | abCDabCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010 10101 10110111 101101 101101 11111 10110111 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 261 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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