This is an analysis of The Owl by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaBBCC dXdXXCC
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,
- Metre: 11111101 11010101 1011101 1010111 1010111 01110011 01100101 11010101 11010111 101110101 1110100 1110100 01110011 01100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and, twice
Epiphora
round, roundelay
