English Literature / Unit 14 ENL 1307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
In Memoriam A.H.H.
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The idea
In Memoriam A.H.H., of eighteen fifty, is Tennyson's elegy for Hallam in a hundred and thirty-three cantos of four-line iambic tetrameter stanzas rhyming ABBA. It moves from grief through doubt to faith, saying, "There lives more faith in honest doubt, / Believe me, than in half the creeds."
In practice
Grief, doubt, recovered faith.
Where people slip
The In Memoriam stanza rhymes ABBA.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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