Analysis of On A Connubial Rupture In High Life
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
I sigh, fair injured stranger! for thy fate;
But what shall sighs avail thee? Thy poor heart,
'Mid all the 'pomp and circumstance' of state,
Shivers in nakedness. Unbidden, start
Sad recollections of Hope's garish dream,
That shaped a seraph form, and named it Love,
Its hues gay-varying, as the orient beam
Varies the neck of Cytherea's dove.
To one soft accent of domestic joy,
Poor are the shouts that shake the high-arched dome:
Those plaudits, that thy public path annoy,
Alas! they tell thee--Thou'rt a wretch at home!
O then retire and weep! Their very woes
Solace the guiltless. Drop the pearly flood
On thy sweet infant, as the full-blown rose,
Surcharged with dew, bends o'er its neighb'ring bud.
And oh that Truth some holy spell might lend
To lure thy wanderer from the syren's power,
Then bid your souls inseparably blend
Like two bright dewdrops meeting in a flower.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1111010111 1111011111 110101011 100111 101011101 110110111 11110010101 1001111 1110110101 1101110111 1101110101 0111110111 1101011101 1001010101 1111010111 111110111 0111110111 11110010110 1111010001 1111100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 871 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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