This is an analysis of Tempest Tossed And Sore Afflicted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

TEMPEST tossed and sore afflicted, sin defiled and care oppressed,
Come to me, all ye that labour; come, and I will give ye rest.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXbbbc
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 1011101011001101 101111111110111 111110101111101 101011001010101 1110111101110111 011010101011101 101010101011101 10101010010100101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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