Analysis of Lines
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb, Somersetshire, May 1795
With many a pause and oft reverted eye
I climb the Coomb's ascent: sweet songsters near
Warble in shade their wild-wood melody:
Far off the unvarying Cuckoo soothes my ear.
Up scour the startling stragglers of the flock
That on green plots o'er precipices browze:
From the deep fissures of the naked rock
The Yew-tree bursts! Beneath its dark green boughs
(Mid which the May-thorn blends its blossoms white)
Where broad smooth stones jut out in mossy seats,
I rest: - and now have gain'd the topmost site.
Ah! what a luxury of landscape meets
My gaze! Proud towers, and Cots more dear to me,
Elm-shadow'd Fields, and prospect-bounding Sea!
Deep sighs my lonely heart: I drop the tear:
Enchanting spot! O were my Sara here!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100101110111 11001010101 110101111 1001111100 11011111 11001010101 11111011 1011010101 0111011111 1101111101 111111011 110111011 110100111 11110011111 1101010101 1111011101 0101101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 140 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 318 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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