Analysis of The Alienated Mistress; A Madrigal. (From An Unfinished Melodrama)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Lady.
If Love be dead (and you aver it!)
Tell me, Bard! where Love lies buried.
Poet.
Love lies buried where 'twas born,
Ah, faithless nymph! think it no scorn
If in my fancy I presume
To name thy bosom poor Love's Tomb,
And on that Tomb to read the line,
Here lies a Love that once was mine,
But took a chill, as I divine,
And died at length of a decline.
| Scheme | XXX XAABBCCCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 111101101 11111110 10 1110111 1111111 10110101 11110111 01111101 11011111 11011101 01111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 353 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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