... . Tennyson's rhyme scheme in "In Memoriam" is abba, but there are other rhyme schemes. Some of his poems are written in the tetrameter quatrain abab. "The Place of Art" is written in alternated rhyme stanza whose lines are pentameter, tetrameter, pentameter, trimeter. "A Dream of a Fair Woman" the rhyming lines are of "five of five, and five of three accents respectively." (Kissane). "A Sprit ... the death of his friend. Tennyson began writing individual poems about Hallam's death, and how alone he felt in the world. He started to write in four line stanzas of iambic tetrameter after thr...

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