Analysis of Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown;
With that wild wheel we go not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great.
Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands;
Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands;
For man is man and master of his fate.
Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd;
Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud;
Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate.
| Scheme | aaB ccb ddb aaB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101001 111111101 1101110111 1101111111 1111111111 101110110111 1011011101 10110111011 1111010111 1111010101 110111001 1101110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 599 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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