Original poem reprinted online here: "Break, break, break" by Alfred Lord Tennyson Originally read: July 19, 2013 More information about the Poet: Alfred Lord Tennyson This is another poem that has a lot of analyses behind it. I didn't know. Anyway, here we go again. The poem is comprised of four quatrains with rhymes happening on the second and fourth line. There's the play of connection and no connection here. A sense of distance. Furthermore, each stanza is end-stopped. Each one works as individual episodes that tie in together. The first stanza starts of with repeating the verb, "Break, break, break" what needs to break "O sea!" where "On thy cold gray stones" However, there's an inversion of linguistics here, it's not subject verb object, rather verb object subject. I was wondering why construct this way. The verb, break, is imperative in the first line, "how" is not as important, but "what" is ...
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