This is an analysis of Lady Clare by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
IT was the time when lilies blow,
And clouds are highest up in air,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb fXbX fbgX XXfh ihhX cacX FXXX hdhX FXaX fXhX bXhd bahX cbcb idhd XehX hbhX hhhX Xjgj chCh CbcX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01011101 11110101 110101011 01010101 11101101 10110001 11010101 110101 11111111 11111111 11111111 11011101 01111001 11101101 111101101 1101111 110111001 111111111 110010111 111101010 11101111110 110111111 1110011001 111011111 111101111 110111111 110011111 1111001 10010111 1101110001 010111001 1100001 111111001 11010111 111100110 1111110 100010111 101111111 11110101 11010101 111111001 11010111 111111101 01010101 1111111001 11011001 1111101001 111101 111101101 01111111 110101011 110101 110111101 11010001 11110111 11110111 110100101 11110101 111111111 00101001 0101111011 110111 10100101 1100101 111100010 11011111 111110101 11010001 111110101 11111101 11010111 1101010 11111110 111101101 11111110 1100101 1110111 01010011 11001101 11110101 11010101 11110111 11110101 11111101 11110101 111110101 11010101 111101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 22
- Lines: 88
Repeated words/phrases
they, my, for, ', nurse, i, mother, she, her, he
Anaphora
i, and, she, he
Epiphora
'
Anadiplosis
they, '
