This is an analysis of Duet by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

1. Is it the wind of the dawn that I hear
in the pine overhead?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXababacDbaXaXdXdcD
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 10001001111 001101 111010011010 01001 1010110100 1001001 110100100 1001001 1110100110 1001001 1111111100 1101111 111110111 11101001 11101001101 110110 1111100111 1001001 110100110 1001001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

of, let, us, it