The Lady of Shalott (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- First Published: 1832
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Arthurian romance
- Subjects: Love or romance, Death or dying, Kings, queens, or royalty, Castles, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Middle Ages, Knights or knighthood, Chivalry, Weaving or weavers, Mirrors or lenses
The Poem
“The Lady of Shalott,” in both its original form of 1832 and in the revision of 1842, is divided into four separate narrative sections, each containing from four to six stanzas of nine lines each. The meter is predominately iambic tetrameter with an insistent and unusual rhyme structure involving double couplets and a triplet in each refrain. Alfred, Lord Tennyson took the poem’s title and a few of its incidents from an anonymous medieval Italian novella variously identified as Donna di Scalotta or Novella LXXXI in the Cento Novelle Antiche...
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