This is an analysis of A Farewell by Alfred Austin.

Good-bye, old year, good-bye!
Gentle you were to many as to me,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabccb adadeeffgX cXXchhiieejj kcckgg llddamXjm
  • Stanza lengths: 9,10,12,6,9,
  • Metre: 011101 1010010101 11110101 111000 1111 1001001110 100101 0101010001 11110 110011 11001 10111 01010101 11011111 110001 1001011111 001101 1101110101 11001100 1011010111 11111101 110100010 01010100111 1101110111 0111010001 11010001 1100010011 01000111 1101011110 1101010001 101101 110111 011101 100101101 10010000111 110101 0101010001 111111 11110101 000101 110101 0011010101 100111 0101110101 110101111 111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 46

Repeated words/phrases

to

Anaphora

no