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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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X XXABCDCDEDEDAAXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 797 |
Words | 140 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 16 |
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