This is an analysis of Mariana by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcddcEFXX gfgXahhaEFXX ijijcggceFXX bibiXkkhEFXX jhjhjbbjeFXX aiaiilliEFXX mfmfnhhnefXXX
- Stanza lengths: 12,12,12,12,12,12,13,
- Metre: 01010101 01010111 01011001 110100101 01011111 10010101 10110101 01010101 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 011001110 01110101 111110110 10111100 10010001 11010101 110100101 11010101 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 01010001 10110111 011111011 00110101 10001101 01110101 11110111 01010101 110111010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 01011001 01010101 110010111 01010101 11010110 1101011 11110101 01010101 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 11010111 101101101 00110011 11010111 11011101 11110111 01100101 01010101 110111010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 11010101 01011101 011100101 010100101 10010101 110100101 11110101 11010001 1101101010 1101011 11101100100 1111010 01010101 01110101 10010101 01010101 011111010 10110111 01010101 1100101010 1111011010 10110011 11101100100 1111010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 85
Repeated words/phrases
she, i, said, and, old
Anaphora
her, and, the, old