Analysis of What if you slept ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?
| Scheme | aBcdBefgBhij |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 011 011 11 011 011 11110 01101010010 011 1101 11110011 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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