Analysis of To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



Why need I say, Louisa dear!
How glad I am to see you here,
A lovely convalescent;
Risen from the bed of pain and fear,
And feverish heat incessant.

The sunny showers, the dappled sky,
The little birds that warble high,
Their vernal loves commencing,
Will better welcome you than I
With their sweet influencing.

Believe me, while in bed you lay,
Your danger taught us all to pray:
You made us grow devouter!
Each eye looked up and seemed to say
How can we do without her?

Besides, what vexed us worse, we knew,
They have no need of such as you
In the place where you were going:
This World has angels all too few,
And Heaven is overflowing!


Scheme AXBAB CCDCD EEAEX FFDFD
Poetic Form Etheree  (25%)
Metre 11110101 11111111 010010 101011101 01001010 01010011 01011101 1101010 11010111 111100 01110111 11011111 11111 11110111 1111010 01111111 11111111 00111010 11110111 0101100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 632
Words 123
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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