This is an analysis of On Revisiting The Sea-Shore, After Long Absence, Under Strong Medical Recommendation Not To Bathe by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
God be with thee, gladsome Ocean!
How gladly greet I thee once more!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab aXac dede dfdf gcgc eheh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 10011010 11011111 11111010 11010111 100101010 11011111 11101010 11110101 10101110 11011101 100101110 11110011 10101110 01010101 10111010 010111001 10101010 10100101 10100010 0111001 11111011 1101001 10011001 11010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, they, me
