This is an analysis of To Edward Lear: On His Travels In Greece by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Illyrian woodlands, echoing falls
Of water, sheets of summer glass,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cddc effe fddf ghhg ibbi
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0100111001 01010101 0101101 01100001 10010111 01010101 11110101 11111111 11111101 11111101 11010111 11000101 11010101 11011101 01111101 1101111 010010101 01010101 01010111 110011101 01110101 110100101 01110101 11000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

the, and