This is an analysis of You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill At Ease by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease,
Within this region I subsist,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacaacbddb ebbe bffb ebbe ghhg
  • Stanza lengths: 12,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111 01010101 11010001 11010101 00011101 11010101 01110111 01110110 01010100 01011101 11010101 01000100 11010101 11010101 01011001 11110111 11010101 01010101 11010101 110100101 110110101 01010101 110010001 11110101 11100101 11110101 11010111 01110001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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