This is an analysis of Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaB ccb ddbXaaB
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,7,
- Metre: 11011111001 1111111111 1111110111 1101110111 0111111111 1101011111 1111010101 1111010111 1101110001 1111010101 1111111001 1111110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
turn, thy, wheel, and, our, we, smile
Anaphora
turn, thy
