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Penny Dreadful S03E01 (The Day Tennyson Died)Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russel Beale) pays Vanessa Ives (

Penny Dreadful S03E01 (The Day Tennyson Died)

Ferdinand Lyle (Simon Russel Beale) pays Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) a visit and tells her about Alfred Tennyson’s death. He then quotes In Memoriam A.H.H., a poem written by Tennyson over 17 years and completed in 1849. It is a requiem for the poet’s friend Arthur Henry Hallam, divided into 133 cantos and written in four-line stanzas of iambic tetrameter; the rhyme scheme is ABBA.

The verses quoted are from the last stanza of the XXVII canto

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
‘Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.


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