Analysis of Hendecasyllabics
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
O you chorus of indolent reviewers,
Irresponsible, indolent reviewers,
Look, I come to the test, a tiny poem
All composed in a metre of Catullus,
All in quantity, careful of my motion,
Like the skater on ice that hardly bears him,
Lest I fall unawares before the people,
Waking laughter in indolent reviewers.
Should I flounder awhile without a tumble
Thro' this metrification of Catullus,
They should speak to me not without a welcome,
All that chorus of indolent reviewers.
Hard, hard, hard it is, only not to tumble,
So fantastical is the dainty meter.
Wherefore slight me not wholly, nor believe me
Too presumptuous, indolent reviewers.
O blatant Magazines, regard me rather -
Since I blush to belaud myself a moment -
As some rare little rose, a piece of inmost
Horticultural art, or half-coquette-like
Maiden, not to be greeted unbenignly.
Scheme | AABACDEAEABAEFGAFHHIE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101100010 00100100010 11110101010 101001011 10100101110 10101111011 1110101010 10100100010 11100101010 11111 11111101010 11101100010 11111101110 11101010 1111101011 10100100010 1101001110 111111010 1111010111 010011111 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 913 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 21 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 672 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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