Analysis of After St. Augustine
Mary Elizabeth Coleridge 1861 (London) – 1907
Sunshine let it be or frost,
Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose;
Though Thine every gift were lost,
Thee Thyself we could not lose.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 111111 1111111 11100101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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