Analysis of The Knight's Tomb
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn?
Where may the grave of that good man be?--
By the side of a spring, on the breast of Helvellyn,
Under the twigs of a young birch tree!
The oak that in summer was sweet to hear,
And rustled its leaves in the fall of the year,
And whistled and roared in the winter alone,
Is gone,--and the birch in its stead is grown.--
The Knight's bones are dust,
And his good sword rust;--
His soul is with the saints, I trust.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111101 110111111 10110110111 100110111 0110101111 0111001101 01001001001 1100101111 01111 01111 11110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 342 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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