Analysis of To A Primrose
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
The first seen in the season
Nitens et roboris expers
Turget et insolida est: et spe delectat.
- Ovid, Metam. [xv.203].
Thy smiles I note, sweet early Flower,
That peeping from thy rustic bower
The festive news to earth dost bring,
A fragrant messenger of Spring.
But, tender blossom, why so pale?
Dost hear stern Winter in the gale?
And didst thou tempt the ungentle sky
To catch one vernal glance and die?
Such the wan lustre Sickness wears
When Health's first feeble beam appears;
So languid are the smiles that seek
To settle on the care-worn cheek,
When timorous Hope the head uprears,
Still drooping and still moist with tears,
If, through dispersing grief, be seen
Of Bliss the heavenly spark serene.
And sweeter far the early blow,
Fast following after storms of Woe,
Than (Comfort's riper season come)
Are full-blown joys and Pleasure's gaudy bloom.
Scheme | X ABX CCDD EEXB AAFF AAGG HHXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110010 1111 11101111 111 111111010 110111010 01011111 01010011 11010111 11110001 0111011 11110101 10110101 11110101 11010111 11010111 11001011 11001111 11010111 110100101 01010101 110010111 111101 111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 843 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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