Analysis of Farewell To Gilsland
Robert Anderson 1750 (Carnwath) – 1830
Adieu, ye dun heaths, purple vales, and wild flowers,
Ye banks whose proud steeps in green verdure are drest;
Ye walks, and ye woodlands, ye glades, and cool bowers,
In whose retir'd shades oft the wearied find rest.
To the town and its follies, fate calls me away;
But reluctant and sad I the summons obey.
Adieu, ye grey crags, and thou hoarse--murm'ring river,
Whose sounds, heard afar, lull the mind to repose;
Near thee could I dwell in retirement, and ever
On thy wood--fring'd windings forget all my woes:
There, free from temptation, unknown would I live,
And taste the delights only virtue can give.
And thou source of health, whose clear waters still flowing,
Faint tppe of His bounty who governs this ball;
New vigour, new life, to the wretched bestowing,
Long may thy blue streams pour their healing to all;
And thy rock be the seat of contentment and mirth,
While peace, love, and virtue are cherish'd on earth.
Scheme | ABABCC DEDEXX FGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111010110 1111101111 11011110110 01011101011 101011011101 101001101001 01111011110 11101101101 1111100100010 1111101111 11101001111 01001101011 011111110110 11111011011 11111010010 11111111011 011101101001 11101011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 915 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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