Analysis of Something Childish, But Very Natural
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
If I had but two little wings
And were a little feathery bird,
To you I'd fly, my dear!
But thoughts like these are idle things,
And I stay here.
But in my sleep to you I fly:
I'm always with you in my sleep!
The world is all one's own.
But then one wakes, and where am I?
All, all alone.
Sleep stays not, though a monarch bids:
So I love to wake ere break of day:
For though my sleep be gone,
Yet while 'tis dark, one shuts one's lids,
And still dreams on.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101 000101001 111111 11111101 0111 10111111 1111011 011111 11110111 1101 1111011 111111111 111111 11111111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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