Analysis of In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death



I wage not any feud with Death
        For changes wrought on form and face;
        No lower life that earth's embrace
    May breed with him, can fright my faith.
    Eternal process moving on,
        From state to state the spirit walks;
        And these are but the shatter'd stalks,
    Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
    Nor blame I Death, because he bare
       The use of virtue out of earth:
       I know transplanted human worth
   Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.

For this alone on Death I wreak
       The wrath that garners in my heart;
       He put our lives so far apart
   We cannot hear each other speak.


Scheme XAAXXBBXCDDC EFFE
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 11011101 11011101 11111111 0101101 11110101 01110101 11010011 11110111 01110111 11010101 111101 11011111 01110011 111011101 11011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 619
Words 104
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 12, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 212
Words per stanza (avg) 51
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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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