Analysis of Beautiful City
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Beautiful city, the centre and crater of European confusion,
O you with your passionate shriek for the rights of an equal
humanity,
How often your Re-volution has proven but E-volution
Roll’d again back on itself in the tides of a civic insanity!
| Scheme | ABCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 100100100101010010 111110011011110 0100 110111110111 101110100110100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 270 |
| Words | 46 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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