Analysis of Sonnet XXII. To Simplicity
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
O! I do love thee, meek Simplicity!
For of thy lays the lulling simpleness
Goes to my heart, and soothes each small distress--
Distress tho' small, yet haply great to me!
'Tis true, on Lady Fortune's gentlest pad
I amble on; yet tho' I know not why,
So sad I am! but should a friend and I
Grow cool and miff, O! I am very sad!
And then with sonnets and with sympathy
My dreamy bosom's mystic woes I pall;
Now of my false friend plaining plaintively,
Now raving at mankind in general:
But whether sad or fierce, 'tis simple all,
All very simple, meek Simplicity.
| Scheme | ABBACDDCAEAFGA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110100 11110101 1111011101 011111111 11110101001 1101111111 1111110101 1101111101 0111001100 110110111 11111110 1101110100 1101111101 1101010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 558 |
| Words | 108 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 428 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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