Analysis of A Couplet, Written In A Volume Of Poems Presented By Mr. Coleridge To Dr. A.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
To meet, to know, to love--and then to part,
Is the sad tale of many a human heart.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1111110111 10111100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 90 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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