Analysis of Marriage Morning



Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
Oh, the woods and the meadows,
Woods where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stay'd to be kind,
Meadows in which we met!

Light, so low in the vale
You flash and lighten afar,
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning start.
Flash, I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood,
Oh, lighten into my eyes and heart,
Into my heart and my blood!

Heart, are you great enough
For a love that never tires?
O' heart, are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briers,
Over the meadow and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash for a million miles.


Scheme XABACDXD XXBEXXEX XXBCFXF
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 1101101 11010111 111011 101001 1111101 1111111 10111 111001 1101001 1110101011 0111101 1111011 110101 110011101 0111011 111101 10111010 111110111 1111101 100101 100110111 110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 689
Words 145
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 7
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 177
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.  more…

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