Analysis of To Nature
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
It may indeed be fantasy when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this belief, it brings
Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God! and thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110011 0111110101 111011101 01010101111 1011010100 1111010111 01110111 1111110100 1111110001 0011110111 00110101101 1100111111 1101011101 1010111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 580 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 458 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 113 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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