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.


Scheme XAXABB CDCDEE
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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Richard Aldington

Richard Aldington, born Edward Godfree Aldington, was an English writer and poet. more…

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