This is an analysis of The Princess: A Medley: Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abacacdcdc ebec
- Stanza lengths: 10,4,
- Metre: 1101010101 1101000101 11011001001 01011010101 1101111101 1101110101 1101110001 1111110101 11010100111 0101011101 1101010101 1100010001 1110110111 0011010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
nor
