This is an analysis of The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccbXdaXb cccbb XdXXb
- Stanza lengths: 10,5,5,
- Metre: 1101111111 1001010101 1001110001 0101010101 1100011111 11011100101 1111100101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011111 1111101101 01001010101 0101110101 010010101001 1111011111 1101010101 1111110101 1111110111 1111110101 1101011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
tears, as
Anaphora
tears
