Analysis of A Farewell
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea,
Thy tribute wave deliver:
No more by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
Flow, softly flow, by lawn and lea,
A rivulet then a river:
Nowhere by thee my steps shall be
For ever and for ever.
But here will sigh thine alder tree
And here thine aspen shiver;
And here by thee will hum the bee,
For ever and for ever.
A thousand suns will stream on thee,
A thousand moons will quiver;
But not by thee my steps shall be,
For ever and for ever.
Scheme | abaB abaB abaB abaB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 1101010 11111111 1100110 11011101 011010 1111111 1100110 11111101 0111010 01111101 1100110 01011111 0101110 11111111 1100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 510 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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