Analysis of I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish (fragment)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
I know 'tis but a Dream, yet feel more anguish
Than if 'twere Truth. It has been often so:
Must I die under it? Is no one near?
Will no one hear these stifled groans and wake me?
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110111110 1111111101 1111011111 11111101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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