Analysis of Goodbye!
Richard Aldington 1892 (Portsmouth) – 1962
Come, thrust your hands in the warm earth
And feel her strength through all your veins;
Breathe her full odors, taste her mouth,
Which laughs away imagined pains;
Touch her life's womb, yet know
This substance makes your grave also.
Shrink not; your flesh is no more sweet
Than flowers which daily blow and die;
Nor are your mein and dress so neat,
Nor half so pure your lucid eye;
And, yet, by flowers and earth I swear
You're neat and pure and sweet and fair.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110011 01011111 10110101 11010101 101111 11011110 11111111 110110101 11110111 11111101 011100111 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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