Analysis of Phantom Or Fact? A Dialogue In Verse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Author.
A lovely form there sate beside my bed,
And such a feeding calm its presence shed,
A tender love so pure from earthly leaven
That I unnethe the fancy might control,
'Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven
Wooing its gentle way into my soul!
But ah! the change -- It had not stirred, and yet
Alas! that change how fain would I forget?
That shrinking back, like one that had mistook!
That weary, wandering, disavowing Look!
'Twas all another, feature, look and frame,
And still, methought, I knew it was the same!
Friend.
This riddling Tale, to what does it belong?
Is't History? Vision? or an idle Song?
Or rather say at once, within what space
Of Time this wild disastrous change took place?
Author.
Call it a moment's work (and such it seems),
This Tale's a Fragment from the Life of Dreams;
But say, that years matured the silent strife,
And 'tis a Record from the Dream of Life.
Scheme | Abbcdcdeeffgg xhhii Ajjkk |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 0101110111 0101011101 01011111010 111010101 11110101110 1011010111 1101111101 0111111101 1101111101 11010000101 1101010101 011111101 1 111111101 111001011101 1101110111 1111010111 10 1101010111 1101010111 1111010101 0100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 879 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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