This is an analysis of The Barren Shore by Coventry Patmore.

Full many sing to me and thee
Their riches gather'd by the sea;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXBccbBddbBeeXBffbB
  • Stanza lengths: 20,
  • Metre: 11010111 11010101 11011010 01000101 01011101 00111001 11010101 11000101 11110101 11111111 11010101 11000101 11101110 11010100 01011110 11000101 01010101 11111111 11000111 01000101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

of, as, i

Anaphora

the, and