Analysis of As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood,
That crests its Head with clouds, beneath the flood
Feeds its deep roots, and with the bulging flank
Of its wide base controls the fronting bank,
(By the slant current's pressure scoop'd away
The fronting bank becomes a foam-piled bay)
High in the Fork the uncouth Idol knits
His channel'd Brows; low murmurs stir by fits
And dark below the horrid Faquir sits;
An Horror from its broad Head's branchy wreath
Broods o'er the rude Idolatry beneath--
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 1011010101 0101010111 1001011101 1101110111 010101011 110111111 11001010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 387 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 15, 2023
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