Analysis of To Asra
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Are there two things, of all which men possess,
That are so like each other and so near,
As mutual Love seems like to Happiness?
Dear Asra, woman beyond utterance dear!
This Love which ever welling at my heart,
Now in its living fount doth heave and fall,
Now overflowing pours thro' every part
Of all my frame, and fills and changes all,
Like vernal waters springing up through snow,
This Love that seeming great beyond the power
Of growth, yet seemeth ever more to grow,
Could I transmute the whole to one rich Dower
Of Happy Life, and give it all to Thee,
Thy lot, methinks, were Heaven, thy age, Eternity!
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Metre | 1111111101 1111110011 11001111100 1110011001 1111010111 1011011101 1100111001 1111010101 1101010111 11110101010 111110111 111011111 1101011111 111010110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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