Analysis of The Visit Of The Gods. Imitated From Schiller
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone:
Scarce had I welcomed the Sorrow-beguiler,
Iacchus! but in came Boy Cupid the Smiler;
Lo! Phoebus the Glorious descends from his throne!
They advance, they float in, the Olympians all!
With Divinities fills my
Terrestrial hall!
How shall I yield you
Due entertainment,
Celestial quire?
Me rather, bright guests! with your wings of upbuoyance
Bear aloft to your homes, to your banquets of joyance,
That the roofs of Olympus may echo my lyre!
Hah! we mount! on their pinions they waft up my soul!
O give me the nectar!
O fill me the bowl!
Give him the nectar!
Pour out for the poet,
Hebe! pour free!
Quicken his eyes with celestial dew,
That Styx the detested no more he may view,
And like one of us Gods may conceit him to be!
Thanks, Hebe! I quaff it! Io Paean, I cry!
The wine of the Immortals
Forbids me to die!
Scheme | ABCDDCEFE GXDBBDHDH DXAGGADBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011 010010 1001 111100101 110111001 110010001111 101110001001 1010011 01001 11111 1010 0101 1101111111 101111111011 101101011011 11111111111 111010 11101 11010 111010 111 101110101 11001011111 011111101111 11111101011 0110010 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 849 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 22 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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