Analysis of Imitated From Ossian

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



The stream with languid murmur creeps,
In Lumin's flowery vale:
Beneath the dew the Lily weeps
Slow-waving to the gale.

'Cease, restless gale! 'it seems to say,
'Nor wake me with thy sighing!
The honours of my vernal day
On rapid wing are flying.

Tomorrow shall the Traveller come
Who late beheld me blooming:
His searching eye shall vainly roam
The dreary vale of Lumin.'

With eager gaze and wetted cheek
My wonted haunts along,
Thus, faithful Maiden! thou shalt seek
The Youth of simplest song.

But I along the breeze shall roll
The voice of feeble power;
And dwell, the Moon-beam of thy soul,
In Slumber's nightly hour.


Scheme ABAB CDCD XDXX EFEF GHGH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (80%)
Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01110101 011001 01010101 110101 11011111 1111110 0111101 1101110 01101001 111110 11011101 010111 1101011 11101 11010111 011101 11010111 0111010 01011111 011010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 611
Words 112
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 98
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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