Analysis of The Happy Husband
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Oft, oft, methinks, the while with thee
I breathe, as from the heart, thy dear
And dedicated bame, I hear
A promise and a mystery,
A pledge of more than passing life,
Yea, in that very name of wife!
A pulse of love that ne'er can sleep!
A feeling that upbraids the heart
With happiness beyond desert,
That gladness half requests to weep!
Nor bless I not the keener sense
And unalarming turbulence.
Of transient joys, that ask no sting
From jealous fears, or coy denying;
But born beneath Love's brooding wing,
And into tenderness soon dying.
Wheel out their giddy moment, then
Resign the soul to love again;
A more precipitated vein
Of notes that eddy in the flow
Of smoothest song, they come, they go,
And leave their sweeter understrain
Its own sweet self-a love of thee
That seems, yet cannot greater be!
Scheme | AXXABB CXXCXX DDDDEE XFFEAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 11110111 01000111 01000100 01111101 10110111 01111111 0101101 11000110 1110111 11110101 01100 11011111 110111010 11011101 001100110 11110101 01011101 0101001 11110001 11011111 011101 11110111 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 792 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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