Analysis of Reason
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
... Finally, what is Reason ? You have often asked me ; and this is my
answer :--
Whene'er the mist, that stands 'twixt God and thee,
[Sublimates] to a pure transparency,
That intercepts no light and adds no stain--
There Reason is, and then begins her reign !
But alas !
------`tu stesso, ti fai grosso
Col falso immaginar, sì che non vedi
Ciò che vedresti, se l'avessi scosso.'
(Dante, Paradiso, Canto 1, lines 88-90)
Scheme | XX AABB CXXC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10011101110110111 10 101111101 11010100 101110111 1101010101 101 111110 1111111 111111 100010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 479 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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