Analysis of Claribel: A Melody
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 – 1892
Where Claribel low-lieth
The breezes pause and die,
Letting the rose-leaves fall:
But the solemn oak-tree sigheth,
Thick-leaved, ambrosial,
With an ancient melody
Of an inward agony,
Where Claribel low-lieth.
At eve the beetle boometh
Athwart the thicket lone:
At noon the wild bee hummeth
About the moss'd headstone:
At midnight the moon cometh,
And looketh down alone.
Her song the lintwhite swelleth,
The clear-voiced mavis dwelleth,
The callow throstle lispeth,
The slumbrous wave outwelleth,
The babbling runnel crispeth,
The hollow grot replieth
Where Claribel low-lieth.
Scheme | AxxaxbbA acacacaaaaaaA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 010101 100111 1010111 11010 1110100 1110100 11011 110101 010101 110111 01011 110110 01101 01011 011101 01011 0111 010011 01011 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 633 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 13 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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