Analysis of Answer To A Child's Question

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)



Do you ask what the birds say? The sparrow, the dove,
The linnet, and thrush say, 'I love and I love!'
In the winter they're silent, the wind is so strong;
What it says I don't know, but it sings a loud song.
But green leaves and blossoms, and sunny warm weather,
And singing, and loving, all come back together.
Then the lark is so brimful of gladness and love,
The green fields below him, the blue sky above,
That he sings, and he sings, and forever sings he--
'I love my Love, and my Love loves me!'


Scheme AABBCCAADD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111101101001 01001111011 001011001111 111111111011 111010010110 010010111010 1011111101 01101101101 111011001011 111101111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 505
Words 102
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 375
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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