This is an analysis of To Alfred Tennyson by Alfred Austin.

Poet! in other lands, when Spring no more
Gleams o'er the grass, nor in the thicket-side…

Read full poem

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXaaXbacddcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10010110111 11001100101 11101110010 1111010101 10111011 0110010101 1101001111 1111111101 10010010101 01010011101 1101011111 0101010101 10001111111 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

this