Analysis of Lines Written After A Walk Before Supper
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Tho' much averse, dear Jack, to flicker,
To find a likeness for friend V----ker,
I've made, thro' earth, and air, and sea,
A voyage of discovery!
And let me add (to ward off strife)
For V----kers, and for V----kers' wife--
She, large and round, beyond belief,
A superfluity of beef!
Her mind and body of a piece,
And both composed of kitchen-grease.
In short, dame Truth might safely dub her
Vulgarity enshrined in blubber!
He, meagre bit of littleness,
All snuff, and musk, and politesse;
So thin, that strip him of his clothing,
He'd totter on the edge of nothing!
In case of foe, he well might hide
Snug in the collops of her side.
Ah then, what simile will suit?
Spindle leg in great jack-boot?
Pismire crawling in a rut,
Or a spigot in a butt?
Thus I humm'd and ha'd awhile,
When Madam Memory, with a smile,
Thus touched my ear--'Why sure, I ween,
In London streets thou oft hast seen
The very image of this pair:
A little ape, with huge she bear
Linked by hapless chain together:
An unlicked mass the one -- the other
An antic huge with nimble crupper'--
But stop, my Muse! for here comes supper.
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Metre | 110111110 110101111 11110101 01010100 01111111 11101111 11010101 0111 01010101 01011101 011111010 010001010 11111 110101 111111110 110101110 01111111 1001101 111111 1010111 110001 1010001 1110101 110100101 11111111 01011111 01010111 01011111 11101010 11101010 11011101 111111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,081 |
Words | 205 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 32 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 823 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 203 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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