Analysis of From “Phantasmion” - He Came Unlook'd For
Sara Coleridge 1802 (Keswick, Cumberland) – 1852 (London)
HE came unlook’d for, undesir’d,
A sunrise in the northern sky,
More than the brightest dawn admir’d,
To shine and then forever fly.
His love, conferr’d without a claim,
Perchance was like the fitful blaze,
Which lives to light a steadier flame,
And, while that strengthens, fast decays.
Glad fawn along the forest springing,
Gay birds that breeze-like stir the leaves,
Why hither haste, no message bringing,
To solace one that deeply grieves?
Thou star that dost the skies adorn,
So brightly heralding the day,
Bring one more welcome than the morn,
Or still in night’s dark prison stay.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA |
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Poetic Form | Pantoum Quatrain |
Metre | 11111 0100101 1101011 11010101 1110101 01110101 111101001 01110101 110101010 11111101 110111010 11011101 11110101 11010001 11110101 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 618 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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