Analysis of In the Valley of Cauteretz



All along the valley, stream that flashest white,
    Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night,
    All along the valley, where thy waters flow,
    I walk'd with one I loved two and thirty years ago.
    All along the valley, while I walk'd to-day,
    The two and thirty years were a mist that rolls away;
    For all along the valley, down thy rocky bed,
    Thy living voice to me was as the voice of the dead,
    And all along the valley, by rock and cave and tree,
  The voice of the dead was a living voice to me.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010101111 1001110100101 10101011101 1111111010101 10101011111 0101010011101 110101011101 1101111101101 0101010110101 011011010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 531
Words 100
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 383
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.  more…

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