Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: Is it, then, regret for buried time
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Is it, then, regret for buried time
That keenlier in sweet April wakes,
And meets the year, and gives and takes
The colours of the crescent prime?
Not all: the songs, the stirring air,
The life re-orient out of dust,
Cry thro' the sense to hearten trust
In that which made the world so fair.
Not all regret: the face will shine
Upon me, while I muse alone;
And that dear voice, I once have known,
Still speak to me of me and mine:
Yet less of sorrow lives in me
For days of happy commune dead;
Less yearning for the friendship fled,
Than some strong bond which is to be.
Scheme | ABBACDDCEFFE GHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 1101101 01010101 0110101 11010101 01110111 11011101 01110111 11010111 01111101 01111111 11111101 11110101 11110101 11010101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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