Analysis of When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt (fragment)

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



When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt--
   A Flight of Hopes for ever on the wing
   But made Tranquillity a conscious Thing--
   And wheeling round and round in sportive coil
   Fann'd the calm air upon the brow of Toil--


Scheme ABBCC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1111111 0111110101 1110101 010101011 1011010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 229
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 167
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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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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