Analysis of Despair
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
I have experienc'd
The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst
That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb
With whisper'd Discontents the dying prayer--
I have beheld the whole of all, wherein
My Heart had any interest in this Life,
To be disrent and torn from off my Hopes
That nothing now is left. Why then live on ?
That Hostage, which the world had in it's keeping
Given by me as a Pledge that I would live--
That Hope of Her, say rather, that pure Faith
In her fix'd Love, which held me to keep truce
With the Tyranny of Life--is gone ah ! whither ?
What boots it to reply ? 'tis gone ! and now
Well may I break this Pact, this League of Blood
That ties me to myself--and break I shall !
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100 0101111101 1111010101 110010101 111011101 1111010011 111011111 1101111111 11010110110 10111011111 1110110111 0011111111 101001111110 1111011101 1111111111 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 689 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 528 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 138 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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