Analysis of Sonnet XV. To Schiller
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Schiller! that hour I would have wished to die,
If thro' the shudd'ring midnight I had sent
From the dark Dungeon of the Tower time-rent
That fearful voice, a famished Father's cry--
That in no after moment aught less vast
Might stamp me mortal! A triumphant shout
Black Horror screamed, and all her goblin rout
From the more with'ring scene diminished past.
Ah! Bard tremendous in sublimity!
Could I behold thee in thy loftier mood,
Wand'ring at eve with finely frenzied eye
Beneath some vast old tempest-swinging wood!
Awhile with mute awe gazing I would brood,
Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111111 11011111 10110101011 1101010101 1011010111 1111000101 1101010101 1011110101 1101001 11011011001 1111110101 0111110101 0111110111 1101001100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 475 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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