Analysis of Glycine's Song
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
A sunny shaft did I behold,
From sky to earth it slanted:
And poised therein a bird so bold
Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted!
He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he troll'd
Within that shaft of sunny mist;
His eyes of fire, his beak of gold,
All else of amethyst!
And thus he sang: 'Adieu! adieu!
Love's dreams prove seldom true.
The blossoms, they make no delay:
The sparking dew-drops will not stay.
Sweet month of May,
We must away;
Far, far away!
To-day! to-day!'
Scheme | AXAX ABAB CCDDDDDD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 1111110 01010111 1111010 111111011 01111101 111101111 111100 01110101 111101 01011101 01011111 1111 1101 1101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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