Analysis of The Outcast's Farewell
The sun is banished,
The daylight vanished,
No rosy traces
Are left behind.
Here in the meadow
I watch the shadow
Of forms and faces
Upon your blind.
Through swift transitions,
In new positions,
My eyes still follow
One shape most fair.
My heart delaying
Awhile, is playing
With pleasures hollow,
Which mock despair.
I feel so lonely,
I long once only
To pass an hour
With you, O sweet!
To touch your fingers,
Where fragrance lingers
From some rare flower,
And kiss your feet.
But not this even
To me is given.
Of all sad mortals
Most sad am I,
Never to meet you,
Never to greet you,
Nor pass your portals
Before I die.
All men scorn me,
Not one will mourn me,
When from their city
I pass away.
Will you to-morrow
Recall with sorrow
Him whom with pity
You saw to-day?
Outcast and lonely,
One thing only
Beyond misgiving
I hold for true,
That, had you known me,
You would have shown me
A life worth living -
A life for you.
Yes: five years younger
My manhood's hunger
Had you come filling
With plenty sweet,
My life so nourished,
Had grown and flourished,
Had God been willing
That we should meet.
How vain to fashion
From dreams and passion
The rich existence
Which might have been!
Can God's own power
Recall the hour,
Or bridge the distance
That lies between?
Before the morning,
From pain and scorning
I sail death's river
To sleep or hell.
To you is given
The life of heaven.
Farewell for ever,
Farewell, farewell!
Scheme | AABCDDBC EEDFGGDF HHIJKKIJ LMNOPPNO HHHQDDHQ HHGPHHGP IIGJAAGJ MMRLIIRX GGISMMIS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110 0110 11010 1101 1001 1101 11010 0111 11010 01010 11110 1111 11010 01110 11010 1101 11110 11110 11110 1111 11110 11010 11110 0111 11110 11110 11110 1111 10111 10111 11110 0111 1111 11111 11110 1101 11110 1110 11110 1111 1010 1110 01010 1111 11111 11111 01110 0111 11110 1110 11110 1101 11110 11010 11110 1111 11110 11010 01010 1111 11110 1010 11010 1101 01010 1101 11110 1111 11110 01110 1110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,355 |
Words | 265 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 72 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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