This is an analysis of Come Down, O Maid by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
COME down, O maid, from yonder mountain height:
What pleasure lives in height (the shepherd sang),…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdeXdfbcgbdcbbdhXXgebXfhadbb
- Stanza lengths: 31,
- Metre: 1111010101 1101010101 0111010001 11011101011 0101110101 01010101001 1111000101 1100010111 1111010111 1101010001 1101010001 1100011101 0111010101 1111100101 1111010101 11001010101 0101010101 1101010111 0110010101 1101010111 0101010111 11010100101 1101010101 1111111101 0111010001 0101010111 11011101001 10111100101 100100100101 01010101001 11000010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
height, come, or, in
Anaphora
to, or, nor
