Analysis of The Moon, how definite its orb! (fragment)

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



The Moon, how definite its orb!
   Yet gaze again, and with a steady gaze--
   'Tis there indeed,--but where is it not?--
   It is suffused o'er all the sapphire Heaven,
   Trees, herbage, snake-like stream, unwrinkled Lake,
   Whose very murmur does of it partake
   And low and close the broad smooth mountain
   Is more a thing of Heaven than when
   Distinct by one dim shade and yet undivided from the universal cloud
  In which it towers, finite in height.


Scheme ABCDEEDFGH
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 01110011 1101010101 110111111 1101101010010 1111111 1101011101 010101110 110111011 01111101010100101 01110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 462
Words 81
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 339
Words per stanza (avg) 77
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 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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