Analysis of Aplolgia Pro Vita Sua
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
The poet in his lone yet genial hour
Gives to his eyes a magnifying power :
Or rather he emancipates his eyes
From the black shapeless accidents of size--
In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole,
His gifted ken can see
Phantoms of sublimity.
| Scheme | AABBCCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01001111010 1111010010 110101011 1011010011 01011101 11110111 110111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 295 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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