This is an analysis of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

The sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and the plains,-
Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbcXbb dd ee ffXcc
  • Stanza lengths: 10,2,2,5,
  • Metre: 0101010101101 111110100111 01010111011111 1111111111101 111010101011 11111100101001 1001011010101 101111111100110110 100110111110011 10110110101011 101111111001011 10011101101111 1011011111101 10110110100101 101111111101 1111100100111001 1010110110101101 10111110100011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

not, he, and, god, law