Analysis of Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Come, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Flash, like a Love-thought, thro' me, Death
And take a Life that wearies me.
| Scheme | ABCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
| Metre | 11110101 01011101 11011111 0101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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