This is an analysis of O Beauty, Passing Beauty! by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
O beauty, passing beauty! Sweetest sweet!
How can thou let me waste my youth in sighs?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeadead
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1101010101 1111111101 1101010111 11011110011 1111111111 1101110101 1101011111 101101111 1001111101 0101011101 0101010111 011100111101 0101011101 1100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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