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.
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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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