Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 118. Contemplate all this work of Tim
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Contemplate all this work of Time,
The giant labouring in his youth;
Nor dream of human love and truth,
As dying Nature's earth and lime;
But trust that those we call the dead
Are breathers of an ampler day
For ever nobler ends. They say,
The solid earth whereon we tread
In tracts of fluent heat began,
And grew to seeming-random forms,
The seeming prey of cyclic storms,
Till at the last arose the man;
Who throve and branch'd from clime to clime,
The herald of a higher race,
And of himself in higher place,
If so he type this work of time
Within himself, from more to more;
Or, crown'd with attributes of woe
Like glories, move his course, and show
That life is not as idle ore,
But iron dug from central gloom,
And heated hot with burning fears,
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,
And batter'd with the shocks of doom
To shape and use. Arise and fly
The reeling Faun, the sensual feast;
Move upward, working out the beast,
And let the ape and tiger die.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFFE AGGA HIIH JXXJ KLLK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111 0101011 11110101 11010101 11111101 111111 11010111 0101111 01110101 01110101 01011101 11010101 11011111 01010101 01010101 11111111 01011111 1111011 11011101 11111101 11011101 01011101 01011101 01010111 11010101 010101001 11010101 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,085 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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