... in 1849. It was composed as an elegy to his friend, Hallam, who died at the age of 22 from a fever. The poem consists of many smaller poems, written in iambic tetrameter with an ABBA rhyme scheme. Besides it is divided into 133 cantos (including the prologue and epilogue), and in contrast to its constant and regulated metrical form, it deals with ... that rhyme together), and Tennyson uses the "In Memoriam" stanza, a stanza structure that he has created specifically for this poem and that consists of four lines of iambic tetrameter rhyming ABBA. Both do not break their rhyme and met...

• Word Count: 5237
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School