This is an analysis of Come Into The Garden, Maud by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Come into the garden, Maud,
For the black bat, Night, has flown,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbAbab cdcdcd ababab bdbXbdbd cbcbcX aeaeae fcfcfX gdgdgdgd cbcbcb hfhfXXXXXfafafafa
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,8,6,6,6,8,6,17,
- Metre: 1000101 1011111 1000101 11110101 10101011001 10100101 1010101 101001011 01001001111 10101011 0100100111 01001101 1110101 0100101 11101001001 00101001 1010100101 10100101 1100101011 01111001 100101001 10100111 110010111 1100101 110111101 0111001 110011111 01011011 111001111 11101001 11110111001 11011010 10100110011 10101001 111010111 11111001 001001111001 11101011 0011111111 10100111 110100011 01001111 0010100111 10100101 010010111 1111101 0111010001 101001101 10110111111 1011001 0101100101 1110111 1100101001 11001011 0101011001 1101101 11101101001 00101011 11100101 001010101 10101111 10101111 01111011011 101111011 0111011111 10101011 10101111 001011001 1111011 00101101 1111011 111101001 111101001 11001011
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, to, faint, in, light, with, mine, my, she
Anaphora
and, to, she
Epiphora
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