This is an analysis of To Virgil by Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of
Virgil's Death…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XX XaXa XbXb ccbc XbXb XdXd Xcec bfbf aggg Xece Xhah
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010010010101110100 101 10101110 1010101010 10101010 11100111010 11101010 111110111 10101010 1010100101 11101111 111011111 10101010 1010000101 100010100 1010101010 10001010 1010101010 100010010 001000100 100010011 100011101 1111010 101110101 10100110 101010101 10101010 111010101 10101011 111110111 11101110 1010010101 11101010 1110001001 10101110 101010101 10101010 1001010101 10111000 111111101 100010010 101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
and, of
Anaphora
i
