Analysis of Good-Bye
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Fools! must we ever quarrel with our fate,
Too late
Reading the worth of what we did despise,
And wise
At the journey's end to weep it scarce begun
When done?
No more! 'Tis ever the same story told
As of old.
Children, we used to wish our childhood past:
At last
It ended, as this journey ends, and we
Are free.
Shall we lament? It were an idle tale
To wail.
Can we be wise? Oh wisdom comes too late,
And fate
Answers our wicked prayer for liberty:
``Good--bye.''
| Scheme | AABBCC DDEEFF GGAAFX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101101 11 1001111101 01 1011111101 11 1111001101 111 1011111011 11 1101110101 11 1101101101 11 1111110111 01 10101011100 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 454 |
| Words | 93 |
| Sentences | 10 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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