This is an analysis of Good-By by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

God be with you! through my losing
And my grieving, shall I say?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab Xbcb dede dfXf Xabcb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,5,
  • Metre: 10011110 1110111 11101110 1001101 11101010 1001101 00111010 0010101 00101110 0010101 00100110 01011011 00100011 0010101 00101010 10110101 10111110 1011111 10000010 1001111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

my, of

Anaphora

in