This is an analysis of I Send You Here A Sort Of Allegory by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

I send you here a sort of allegory,
(For you will understand it) of a soul,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXabccddXbcXbeeaXbc
  • Stanza lengths: 19,
  • Metre: 11110101010 1101010001 0101010101 01010101001 01001010111 1011010101 0101000111 1101010100 0101010101 11001101110 1101110101 1001010011 11010100011 1111110110 1101110111 1001010110 11011000101 1011110001 0100001101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

of, and, beauty

Anaphora

a, that, and

Anadiplosis

good