Analysis of Fragment
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
The body,
Eternal Shadow of the finite Soul,
The Soul's self-symbol, its image of itself.
Its own yet not itself--
| Scheme | ABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010 01011011 01110110101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 119 |
| Words | 22 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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