Analysis of To A Lady, Offended By A Sportive Observation That Women Have No Souls

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



Nay, dearest Anna! why so grave?
I said, you had no soul, 'tis true!
For what you are, you cannot have:
'Tis I, that have one since I first had you!
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I have heard of reasons manifold
Why Love must needs be blind,
But this the best of all I hold--
His eyes are in his mind.

What outward form and feature are
He guesseth but in part;
But what within is good and fair
He seeth with the heart.


Scheme XAXAX BCBC XDXD
Poetic Form
Metre 11010111 11111111 11111101 1111111111 1 11111010 111111 11011111 111011 11010101 11101 11011101 11101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 398
Words 83
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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