Analysis of Absence: A Farewell Ode On Quitting School For Jesus College
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Where graced with many a classic spoil
Cam rolls his reverend stream along,
I haste to urge the learned toil
That sternly chides my love-lorn song:
Ah me! too mindful of the days
Illumed by Passion's orient rays,
When peace, and Cheerfulness, and Health
Enriched me with the best of wealth.
Ah fair Delights! that o'er my soul
On Memory's wing, like shadows fly!
Ah Flowers! which Joy from Eden stole
While Innocence stood smiling by!
But cease, fond Heart! this bootless moan:
Those Hours on rapid Pinions flown
Shall yet return, by Absence crowned,
And scatter livelier roses round.
The Sun who ne'er remits his fires
On heedless eyes may pour the day:
The Moon, that oft from Heaven retires,
Endears her renovated ray.
What though she leave the sky unblest
To mourn awhile in murky vest?
When she relumes her lovely Light,
We bless the Wanderer of the Night.
Scheme | ABABCCDD EFEFGGHH XIXIHXJJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 111100101 1111011 11011111 11110101 111101 110101 01110111 110111011 111111 110111101 11001101 1111111 11011011 11011101 010100101 01111110 1111101 011111001 101001 1111011 11010101 1110101 110100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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