Analysis of Genevieve

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



Maid of my love! sweet Genevieve!
In beauty's light you glide along;
Your eye is like the star of eve,
And sweet your voice, as seraph's song.
Yet not your heavenly beauty gives
This heart with passion soft to glow:
Within your soul a voice there lives!
It bids you hear the tale of woe.
When sinking low the suff'rer wan
Beholds no hand outstretched to save,
Fair, as the bosom of the swan
That rises graceful o'er the wave,
I've seen your breast with pity heave
And therefore love I you, sweet Genevieve!


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110 0111101 11110111 0111111 111100101 11110111 01110111 11110111 1101011 1110111 11010101 110101001 11111101 01111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 502
Words 96
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 394
Words per stanza (avg) 94
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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