Analysis of Domestic Peace

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



Tell me, on what holy ground
May domestic peace be found?
Halcyon daughter of the skies,
Far on fearful wing she flies,
From the pomp of scepter'd state,
From the rebel's noisy hate.
In a cottaged vale she dwells
List'ning to the Sabbath bells!
Still around her steps are seen,
Spotless honor's meeker mien,
Love, the sire of pleasing fears,
Sorrow smiling through her tears,
And conscious of the past employ,
Memory, bosom-spring of joy.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 1010111 10010101 1110111 101111 1010101 001111 1110101 1010111 1010101 10101101 1010101 01010101 10010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 445
Words 77
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 344
Words per stanza (avg) 75
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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