Analysis of The Verse of Coleridge’s ‘Christobel’

Charles Harpur 1813 (Windsor) – 1868 (Australia)



MARK yon runnel how ’tis flowing,
Like a sylvan spirit dreaming
Of the Spring-blooms near it blowing
And the sunlight in it gleaming!
Where that shelving rock is spied,
There with a smooth warbling slide
It lapses down into a cool
And brimming, not o’erflowing pool.
Then between its narrow’d banks
Playing mellow gurgling pranks,
It gushes till a channel’d stone
Gives it a more strenuous tone;
Or with an under-swirling spread
Over a wide pebbled bed
It bubbles with a gentle pleasure,
Ere some new mood change the measure:
Such a runnel typeth well
The sweet wild verse of ‘Christabel;’
But what
The Wonder-World it warbles through?


Scheme AAAABBCCDDEEFFGGHCIJ
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (25%)
Metre 1111110 10101010 10111110 0010110 1110111 11011001 11010101 010111 101111 10101001 1101011 11011001 11110101 100111 110101010 11111010 10111 011111 11 01011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 636
Words 111
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 508
Words per stanza (avg) 108
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Charles Harpur

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