Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 96. You say, but with no touch of sco
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
You say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes
Are tender over drowning flies,
You tell me, doubt is Devil-born.
I know not: one indeed I knew
In many a subtle question versed,
Who touch'd a jarring lyre at first,
But ever strove to make it true:
Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more faith in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
He fought his doubts and gather'd strength,
He would not make his judgment blind,
He faced the spectres of the mind
And laid them: thus he came at length
To find a stronger faith his own;
And Power was with him in the night,
Which makes the darkness and the light,
And dwells not in the light alone,
But in the darkness and the cloud,
As over Sinaï's peaks of old,
While Israel made their gods of gold,
Altho' the trumpet blew so loud.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11011111 11010101 11111101 11110111 010010101 11010111 11011111 1011101 11111101 11110101 01110101 11110101 11111101 1101101 01111111 11010111 010111001 11010001 01100101 10010001 11011111 110011111 1010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 971 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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