This is an analysis of The Princess: A Medley: Our Enemies Have Fall'N by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Our enemies have fall'n, have fall'n: the seed,
The little seed they laugh'd at in the dark,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbacDaaXe DXfXc bgceaXgfadea
- Stanza lengths: 10,5,12,
- Metre: 1100111101 0101111001 11011011101 01011111001 0101110001 1100111111 0101010111 0101111101 1100011001 1111011101 1100111111 0100110101 1101010101 1101111111 1111010101 1100111111 0111110111 1111010001 01001110011 1101000101 1100111011 0101000101 01010101011 0100010101 0111010101 1101010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
they, fall'n, have, and, for, their, of
Anaphora
and
