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!
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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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