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.


Scheme ABBACBBCDCDCEF
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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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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