Analysis of To Alfred Tennyson - 1883
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
Familiar with thy melody,
We go debating of its power,
As churls, who hear it hour by hour,
Contemn the skylark's minstrelsy -
As shepherds on a Highland lea
Think lightly of the heather flower
Which makes the moorland's purple dower,
As far away as eye can see.
Let churl or shepherd change his sky,
And labour in the city dark,
Where there is neither air nor room -
How often will the exile sigh
To hear again the unwearied lark,
And see the heather's lavish bloom!
Scheme | ABBX ABXA CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011100 110101110 1111110110 1011 11010101 110101010 1101101 11011111 11110111 0100101 11110111 1101011 1101011 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 462 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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