Analysis of Home-Sick. Written In Germany
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
'Tis sweet to him, who all the week
Through city-crowds must push his way,
To stroll alone through fields and woods,
And hallow thus the Sabbath-day.
And sweet it is, in summer bower,
Sincere, affectionate and gay,
One's own dear children feasting round,
To celebrate one's marriage-day.
But what is all, to his delight,
Who having long been dommed to roam,
Throws off the bundle from his back,
Before the door of his own home?
Home-sickness is a wasting pang;
This feel I hourly more and more:
There's healing only in thy wings,
Thou Breeze that play'st on Albion's shore!
Scheme | XAXA XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 11011111 11011101 01010101 011101010 01010001 11110101 1101101 11111101 11011111 11010111 01011111 11010101 11110101 11010011 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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