This is an analysis of Epitaph on General Gordon by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
WARRIOR of God, man's friend, and tyrant's foe
Now somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 10001111101 1111100110 1100111111 0111010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
