This is an analysis of The War by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
There is a sound of thunder afar,
Storm in the south that darkens the day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababCCC dbdbCCC ededCCC bdXdCCC
- Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,7,
- Metre: 100101001 100111001 101011001 10011111 111001 100100101 1001001001 01100111 011010101 110101101 11010111 111001 100100101 1001001001 110110101 10111101 100101111 10101101001 111001 100100101 1001001001 10100111 10101101 111101010 1100101111 111001 100100101 1001001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
of, form, riflemen
Anaphora
storm, be, form
Anadiplosis
form
