Analysis of Farewell
Reality cheated by daydream
and whispered to me it's scheme
and that's when I saw
my fantasies had a flaw
for absence is to love
as wind is to fire
it extinguishes the small
and kindles the great
only time will tell
if I must say farewell
| Scheme | AABBCDEFGG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 101011 0101111 01111 1100101 110111 111110 1101 0101 10111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 229 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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