This is an analysis of the poem In Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How Fares It With The Happy Dead? that begins with:
How fares it with the happy dead?
For here the man is more and more;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddceeee fccf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 11010111 11010101 11011001 01110111 11010101 11111111 01010101 100101000 01111001 11110101 01110011 01010111 11110101 110010011 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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More information about poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Analysis of The Princess (Part 1)
- Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I Wage Not Any Feud With Death
- Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 121. Sad Hesper O'Er The Buried Sun
