This is an analysis of Amphion by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
MY father left a park to me,
But it is wild and barren,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eXEbefEf gbgbhihX bjbXkgkg efeflXlX hmhabnbn adadjdjd bfbfXiXj ococpgpg dgdgjqjq jbjXejej eXemdbdb cbcbcrcr X
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,
- Metre: 11010101 1001110 01010101 1101010 11010111 0011101 10000101 1101011 11111111 010110 110110001 1111110 11111111 1101010 110110001 1100010 11110101 1100010 01011111 1101110 01000101 1110011 01010101 11000100 01010101 1101010 1101001 1000110 11011101 1100010 10010101 1101010 01010111 0101110 11010111 0101010 01001101 0101000 01111111 1101000 11110001 11010100 11011001 1000011 11110001 0111010 11010101 01001010 11000101 1101110 11110111 0101010 11000101 1111110 11010101 0101110 11011101 1100110 11011101 1101110 11110101 1101010 11110111 1101110 11010101 1111010 01010001 1100110 11011111 0101010 01110001 0101010 11011101 1101010 11101101 0101010 11010100 11110011 11000101 0110111 01010111 10101010 11110111 0100110 11010111 1101010 11010101 1101010 11110101 1101110 11000101 0101010 10010101 1101010 01011101 0101010 11111101 1001010 01110101 0111110 11010111 1011110 01010101 0101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 105
Repeated words/phrases
and, he, her, of
Anaphora
and, the, came
