This is an analysis of Good-Bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home;
Thou art my friend, and I'm not thine.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Ababaa ccddeeaA bbffdXff aaggbbee
  • Stanza lengths: 6,8,8,8,
  • Metre: 01110101 11111011 11110111 010110101 110110101 11110101 010100101 00100110 01110101 01010111 01010111 01011101 01111111 01110101 111001111 100011101 010100101 11010101 110101001 10010100 11011101 0110100111 1111101101 111010111 111110101 101011101 1110110101 101011011 1111101101 110010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

to, and

Anaphora

to