Analysis of Cologne

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



In Köhln, a town of monks and bones,
     And pavements fang'd with murderous stones
     And rags, and hags, and hideous wenches ;
     I counted two and seventy stenches,
     All well defined, and several stinks !
     Ye Nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
     The river Rhine, it is well known,
     Doth wash your city of Cologne ;
But tell me, Nymphs, what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ?


Scheme AABACCDDEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 011011101 010111001 0101010010 110101001 11010101 1111101001 01011111 11110101 111111001 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 422
Words 69
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 299
Words per stanza (avg) 71
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 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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