Analysis of The Close Of The Session



The Session's over. We must say farewell
To these east winds and to this eastern sea,
For summer comes, with swallow and with bee,
With many a flower and many a golfing swell.

No more the horribly discordant bell
Shall startle slumber; and all men agree
That whatsoever other things may be
A cause of sorrow, this at least is well.

The class-room shall not open wide its doors,
Or if it does, such opening will be vain;
The gown shall hang unused upon a nail;
South Street shall know us not; we'll wipe the Scores
From our remembrance; as for Mutto's Lane,
Yea, even the memory of this shall fail.


Scheme ABBA ABBA CDECDE
Poetic Form
Metre 010101111 1111011101 1101110011 1100100100101 1101000101 1101001101 101010111 0111011111 0111110111 11111100111 0111010101 1111111101 1100101111 11001001111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 592
Words 113
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Robert Fuller Murray

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