Analysis of Lines Composed In A Concert-Room
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Nor cold nor stern my soul! Yet I detest
These scented rooms, where to a gaudy throug,
Heaves the proud harlot her distended breast
In intricacies of laborious song.
These feel not musics genuine power nor deign
To melt at Natures passion-warbled plaint;
But when the long-breathed singers up-trilled strain
Bursts in a squall, they gape for wonderment.
Hark! the deep buzz of vanity and hate!
Scornful, yet envious, with self-torturing sneer
My lady eyes some maid of humbler state,
While the pert captain, or the primmer priest,
Prattles accordant scandal in her ear.
0 give me, from this heartless scene released,
To hear our old musician, blind and gray,
(Whom, stretching from my nurses arms I kissed,)
His Scottish tunes and warlike marches play,
By moonshine, on the balmy summer-night,
The while I dance amid the tedded hay
With merry maids, whose ringlets toss in light.
Or lies the purple evening on the bay
Of the calm glossy lake, O let me hid
Unheard, unseen, behind the alder-trees,
For round their roots the fisher's boat is tied,
On whose trim seat doth Edmund stretch at ease,
And while the lazy boat sways to and fro,
Breathes in his flute sad airs, so wild and slow,
That his own cheek is wet with quiet tears.
But O, dear Anne! when midnight wind careers,
And the gust pelting on the out-house shed
Makes the cock shrilly on the rain-storm crow,
To hear thee sing some ballad full of woe,
Ballad of ship-wrecked sailor floating dead,
Whom his own true-love buried in the sands!
Thee, gentle woman, for thy voice re-measures
Whatever tones and melancholy pleasures
The things of Nature utter; birds or trees
Or moan of ocean-gale in weedy caves,
Or where the stiff grass mid the heath-plant waves,
Murmur and music thin of sudden breeze.
Scheme | ABAB CACX DXDEX EFXFGFG FXHXHIIX XJIIJXKKHLLH |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111101 1101110101 1011000101 01000101001 111101001011 1111010101 1101110111 1001111100 1011110001 101100111001 11011111001 1011010101 10110001 111110101 11101010101 1101110111 110101101 111010101 011101011 110111101 1101010101 1011011111 0101010101 1111010111 1111110111 0101011101 1011111101 1111111101 111111101 0011010111 101110111 1111110111 1011110101 1111110001 11010111110 101010010 0111010111 1111010101 1101110111 1001011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,727 |
Words | 308 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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