Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 7. Dark house, by which once more I s
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my heart was used to beat
So quickly, waiting for a hand,
A hand that can be clasp'd no more--
Behold me, for I cannot sleep,
And like a guilty thing I creep
At earliest morning to the door.
He is not here; but far away
The noise of life begins again,
And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain
On the bald street breaks the blank day.
| Scheme | ABBACDDCEFGE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 100111 11111111 11010101 01111111 01111101 01010111 110010101 11111101 01110101 010101001 10111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 319 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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