Analysis of Far-Far-Away
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
What sight so lured him thro' the fields he knew
As where earth's green stole into heaven's own hue,
Far-far-away?
What sound was dearest in his native dells?
The mellow lin-lan-lone of evening bells
Far-far-away.
What vague world-whisper, mystic pain or joy,
Thro' those three words would haunt him when a boy,
Far-far-away?
A whisper from his dawn of life? a breath
From some fair dawn beyond the doors of death
Far-far-away?
Far, far, how far? from o'er the gates of birth,
The faint horizons, all the bounds of earth,
Far-far-away?
What charm in words, a charm no words could give?
O dying words, can Music make you live
Far-far-away?
| Scheme | aaB ccB ddB eeB ffB xxB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110111 11111011011 1101 1111001101 0101111101 1101 1111010111 1111111101 1101 0101111101 1111010111 1101 11111100111 0101010111 1101 1101011111 1101110111 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 658 |
| Words | 114 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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