This is an analysis of Milton (Alcaics) by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

O mighty-mouth'd inventor of harmonies,
O skill'd to sing of Time or Eternity,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXXXXXabXXab
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11010100100 11010110100 110101010 1001011110 1101010010 1001010100 101011100 1001011011 11011100100 01010100100 110111010 1101001010 11100110100 11001010101 110101011 1001001010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

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