Analysis of Sonnet IX. To Priestley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Tho' roused by that dark Visir riot rude
Have driven our Priestly o'er the ocean swell;
Tho' Superstition and her wolfish brood
Bay his mild radiance, impotent and fell;
Calm in his halls of Brightness he shall dwell;
For lo! Religion at his strong behest
Starts with mild anger from the Papal spell,
And flings to Earth her tinsel-glittering vest,
Her mitred state and cumbrous pomp unholy;
And Justice wakes to bid th' Oppressor wail,
Insulting aye the wrongs of patient folly;
And from her dark retreat by Wisdom won,
Meek Nature slowly lifts her matron veil
To smile with fondness on her gazing son!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 1101010100101 10100011 11110010001 1011110111 1101011101 1111010101 01110101001 011011010 010111110101 01010111010 0101011101 1101010101 1111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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