This is an analysis of A Parting Song by Felicia Dorothea Hemans.

When will ye think of me, my friends?
When will ye think of me?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBbbccB aBddeeB aBbXddB abffeeb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
  • Metre: 10110111 101101 1011101101 001101001001 1010010101 1011100101 1100 10110111 101101 1010011101 01001001001 111001101101 00111111111 1100 10110111 101101 1010110011 1010110100 1110100101 1110100101 1100 1111000011 110101 101101101 111100111 100100101 1001001101 1100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

when, of

Anaphora

when, thus, as