This is an analysis of In Memoriam 3: O Sorrow, Cruel Fellowship by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
O Sorrow, cruel fellowship,
O Priestess in the vaults of Death,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc XccX eeee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11010101 11000101 11110001 11001101 1101101001 01010101 01110101 11000101 101010101 01010001 01010011 010101010 11110111 010111000 11010101 01011001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
o
Anaphora
o, and, a
