Analysis of The Complaint Of Ninathoma
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
How long will ye round me be swelling,
O ye blue-tumbling waves of the sea?
Not always in caves was my dwelling,
Nor beneath the cold blast of the tree.
Thro' the high-sounding halls of Cathlóma
In the steps of my beauty I stray'd;
The warriors beheld Ninathóma,
And they blessèd the white-bosomed maid!
A ghost! by my cavern it darted!
In moon-beams the spirit was drest--
For lovely appear the departed
When they visit the dreams of my rest!
But disturbed by the tempest's commotion
Fleet the shadowy forms of delight--
Ah, cease, thou shrill blast of the ocean!
To howl through my cavern by night.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110 1111001101 11011110 101011101 101101111 001111011 0100111 01110111 011110110 01101011 110010010 111001111 101101010 101001101 111111010 11111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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