Analysis of An Adieu
Florence Earle Coates 1850 (Philadelphia) – 1927 (Philadelphia)
Sorrow, quit me for a while!
Wintry days are over;
Hope again, with April smile,
Violets sows and clover.
Pleasure follows in her path,
Love itself flies after,
And the brook a music hath
Sweet as childhood’s laughter.
Not a bird upon the bough
Can repress its rapture,
Not a bud that blossoms now
But doth beauty capture.
Sorrow, thou art Winter’s mate,
Spring cannot regret thee;
Yet, ah, yet—my friend of late—
I shall not forget thee!
Scheme | ABAB CBCB DBDB EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 101110 1011101 1001010 1010001 101110 0010101 11110 1010101 101110 1011101 111010 1011101 110011 1111111 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 463 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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