Analysis of What Is Life?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Resembles Life what once was held of Light,
Too ample in itself for human sight ?
An absolute Self--an element ungrounded--
All, that we see, all colours of all shade
[Image]By encroach of darkness made ?--
Is very life by consciousness unbounded ?
And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath,
A war-embrace of wrestling Life and Death ?
| Scheme | AAABBCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101111111 1100011101 110111001 111111111 1011101 11011100010 0101111101 0101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 355 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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