Analysis of Tennyson
Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)
Shakespeare and Milton--what third blazoned name
Shall lips of after-ages link to these?
His who, beside the wide encircling seas,
Was England's voice, her voice with one acclaim,
For threescore years; whose word of praise was fame,
Whose scorn gave pause to man's iniquities.
What strain was his in that Crimean war?
A bugle call in battle; a low breath,
Plaintive and sweet, above the fields of death!
So year by year the music rolled afar,
From Euxine wastes to flowery Kandahar,
Bearing the laurel or the cypress wreath.
Others shall have their little space of time,
Their proper niche and bust, then fade away
Into the darkness, poets of a day;
But thou, O builder of enduring rhyme,
Thou shalt not pass! Thy fame in every clime
On earth shall live where saxon speech has sway.
Waft me this verse across the winter sea,
Through light and dark, through mist and blinding sleet,
O winter winds, and lay it at his feet;
Though the poor gift betray my poverty,
At his feet lay it: it may chance that he
Will find no gift, where reverence is, unmeet.
Scheme | ABBAAB XCCDDX EFFEAF GHHGGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101111 1111010111 11010101001 1101011101 111111111 1111111 111101011 0101010011 1001010111 1111010101 1111100100 1001010101 1011110111 1101011101 0101010101 1111010101 11111101001 1111110111 1111010101 1101110101 1101011111 1011011100 1111111111 1111110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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