Analysis of Metrical Feet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks, strong foot!, yet ill able
Ever to come up with Dactyl's trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long.
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapests throng.
One syllable long, with one short at each side,
Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride --
First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer
Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high-bred Racer.
If Derwent be innocent, steady, and wise,
And delight in the things of earth, water, and skies;
Tender warmth at his heart, with these meters to show it,
WIth sound sense in his brains, may make Derwent a poet --
May crown him with fame, and must win him the love
Of his father on earth and his father above.
My dear, dear child!
Could you stand upon Skiddaw, you would not from its whole ridge
See a man who so loves you as your fond S.T. Colerige.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEE FFXXGGXHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11110101 111111110 10111111 111111 1010010111 11001111111 1110101 1011011011 1110011011110 1111001001 001001111001 1011111110111 111011111010 11111011101 111011011001 1111 1110111111111 101111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 904 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 9 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 349 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 83 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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