Analysis of Milton (Alcaics)
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies,
O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,
God-gifted organ-voice of England,
Milton, a name to resound for ages;
Whose Titan angels, Gabriel, Abdiel,
Starr'd from Jehovah's gorgeous armouries,
Tower, as the deep-domed empyrean
Rings to the roar of an angel onset--
Me rather all that bowery loneliness,
The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring,
And bloom profuse and cedar arches
Charm, as a wanderer out in ocean,
Where some refulgent sunset of India
Streams o'er a rich ambrosial ocean isle,
And crimson-hued the stately palm-woods
Whisper in odorous heights of even.
Scheme | ABCDEAFGHIDFJEKF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101100 11111110100 110101110 100111110 110101001 11010101 1010111 110111101 11011100100 011101100 010101010 1101001010 11111100 11001010101 010101011 1001001110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 672 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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