You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill At Ease by Alfred Lord Tennyson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem You Ask Me, Why, Tho' Ill At Ease that begins with:

You ask me, why, tho' ill at ease,
Within this region I subsist,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacaacbddb ebbe bffb ebbe ghhg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 01010101 11010001 11010101 00011101 11010101 01110111 01110110 01010100 01011101 11010101 01000100 11010101 11010101 01011001 11110111 11010101 01010101 11010101 110100101 110110101 01010101 110010001 11110101 11100101 11110101 11010111 01110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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