Analysis of Time, Real And Imaginary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
On the wide level of a mountain's head,
(I knew not where, but 'twas some faery place)
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails out-spread,
Two lovely children run an endless race,
A sister and a brother !
This far outstripp'd the other ;
Yet ever runs she with reverted face,
And looks and listens for the boy behind :
[Image] For he, alas ! is blind !
O'er rough and smooth with even step he passed,
And knows not whether he be first or last.
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Metre | 1011010101 111111111 111011111 1101011101 0100010 1101010 1101110101 0101010101 1110111 10101110111 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 467 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 336 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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