Analysis of From “Phantasmion” - One Face Alone
Sara Coleridge 1802 (Keswick, Cumberland) – 1852 (London)
ONE face alone, one face alone,
These eyes require;
But, when that long’d-for sight is shown,
What fatal fire
Shoots through my veins a keen and liquid flame,
That melts each fibre of my wasting frame!
One voice alone, one voice alone,
I pine to hear;
But, when its meek mellifluous tone
Usurps mine ear,
Those slavish chains about my soul are wound,
Which ne’er, till death itself, can be unbound.
One gentle hand, one gentle hand,
I fain would hold;
But, when it seems at my command,
My own grows cold;
Then low to earth I bend in sickly swoon,
Like lilies drooping ’mid the blaze of noon.
Scheme | ABABCC ADADEE FGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1110 11111111 11010 1111010101 1111011101 11011101 1111 111111 111 1101011111 1111011101 11011101 1111 11111101 1111 1111110101 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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