This is an analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 96. You Say, But With No Touch Of Sco by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

You say, but with no touch of scorn,
Sweet-hearted, you, whose light-blue eyes…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcbddb effe addaXffff
  • Stanza lengths: 12,4,9,
  • Metre: 11101101 11011111 11010101 11110101 11110111 010010101 11010111 11010101 10011101 11110101 11110101 01110101 11011101 11110101 11010001 11011111 01010101 110101001 11010101 11100101 10010101 11010101 11011101 10010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

you, in, he, and

Anaphora

he