This is an analysis of Beautiful City by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Beautiful city
Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a XXaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 1,5,
  • Metre: 10010 1001001011001010010 110110011010110 0100 1101110011011100 101110100100100100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 6

Anaphora

beautiful