Analysis of Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds

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



O! it is pleasant with a heart at ease,
Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,
To make the shifting clouds be what you please,
Or let the easily persuaded eyes
Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould
Of a friend's fancy; or with head bent low
And cheek aslant see rivers flow of gold
'Twixt crimson banks; and then, a traveller, go
From mount to mount through Cloudland, gorgeous land!
Or list'ning to the tide, with closed sight,
Be that blind bard, who on the Chian strand
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light
Beheld the Iliad and Odyssey
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.


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Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1111010111 11011111 1101011111 1101000101 11110100101 1011011111 011110111 11010101001 111111101 111101111 111111011 1111011101 101000100 110101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 600
Words 112
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 478
Words per stanza (avg) 110
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 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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