Analysis of The Splendor Falls
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.
O hark, O hear! how thin and clear,
And thinner, clearer, farther going!
O sweet and far from cliff and scar
The horns of Elfland faintly blowing!
Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying,
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes dying, dying, dying.
O love they die in yon rich sky,
They faint on hill or field, or river:
Our echoes roll from soul to soul,
And grow forever and forever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying,
And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Scheme | xaxaBB xbxbbB xcxcBb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 010101010 01110101 0011001010 11011011010 1101010101010 11111101 010101010 11011101 01111010 11110101010 1101010101010 11110111 111111110 101011111 010100010 11011011010 0101010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 721 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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