This is an analysis of An Idyll by Coventry Patmore.

‘And even our women,’ lastly grumbles Ben,
‘Leaving their nature, dress and talk like men!’…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeffddggggggXbccXdhhXdddaXddbX
  • Stanza lengths: 38,
  • Metre: 11011010101 1011011111 01011111110 10010001110 01010101110 10110110110 11111111010 01111001010 0101010100 1101010101 11010011010 11110101110 11010101110 10110100010 01010101010 010101001010 11110111010 11011111010 10111101010 00110111010 11110100010 11111001010 11110011110 01111111110 11010001100 10010101010 111000111010 10110111110 11111101010 01111100010 11010100010 01111111010 11010001010 11100101110 11110111010 11001111010 11111101010 11111111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 38

Repeated words/phrases

and, her, for

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

her

Anadiplosis

her