Analysis of A Farewell
Charles Kingsley 1819 – 1875
My fairest child, I have no song to give you;
No lark could pipe to skies so dull and grey:
Yet, ere we part, one lesson I can leave you
For every day.
Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever;
Do noble things, not dream them, all day long:
And so make life, death, and that vast for-ever
One grand, sweet song.
| Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
| Metre | 11011111111 1111111101 11111101111 11001 11110111110 1101111111 01111011110 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 330 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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