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 |
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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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