Analysis of A Moment
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907
The clouds had made a crimson crown
Above the mountains high.
The stormy sun was going down
In a stormy sky.
Why did you let your eyes so rest on me,
And hold your breath between?
In all the ages this can never be
As if it had not been.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 01110101 010101 01011101 00101 1111111111 011101 0101011101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 237 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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