Analysis of To Edward Lear: on His Travels in Greece
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Of water, sheets of summer glass,
The long divine Peneian pass,
The vast Akrokeraunian walls,
Tomohrit, Athos, all things fair,
With such a pencil, such a pen,
You shadow forth to distant men,
I read and felt that I was there:
And trust me while I turn'd the page,
And track'd you still on classic ground,
I grew in gladness till I found
My spirits in the golden age.
For me the torrent ever pour'd
And glisten'd -- here and there alone
The broad-limb'd gods at random thrown
By fountain urns; -- and Naiads oar'd
A glimmering shoulder under gloom
Of cavern pillars; on the swell
The silver lily heaved and fell;
And many a slope was rich in bloom
From him that on the mountain lea
By dancing rivulets fed his flocks,
To him who sat upon the rocks,
And fluted to the morning sea.
Scheme | ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010011001 11011101 010111 0111 11111 11010101 1111101 11011111 01111101 01111101 1101111 11000101 11010101 01010101 01111101 1101011 010010101 11010101 01010101 010011101 11110101 1101111 11110101 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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