This is an analysis of Advent by Patrick Kavanagh.

We have tested and tasted too much, lover-
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabXcbX ddXddXe ddddXecXfefeaa Xe
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,14,2,
  • Metre: 11101101110 10111110110 110011101 10111101001 0100110100 001110101 010111111 101011010011 1111011001010 1000110101 1001001000010010 01110011111 11100110101 1011111101101 1101011110110 101001111110 11000101000010 100110101110 1110011011 1101010101 01011101010 110111111 1111111010 0101101001010 11001101010 11100011011010 01010101010 11100101010 01011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

to, in

Anaphora

of