Analysis of Marriage Morning
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
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 |
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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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