Analysis of A Final Goodbye
Starting out with belief
all that’s left is regret
Starting out with hope
every wish then denied
Starting out with love
at the end only pain
Starting out with a welcome
—one last final goodbye
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 111101 10111 1001101 10111 101101 1011010 11101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 238 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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