Analysis of Lines On Observing A Blossom On The First Of February, 1796
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Sweet flower! that peeping from thy russet stem
Unfoldest timidly, (for in strange sort
This dark, frieze-coated, hoarse, teeth-chattering month
Hath borrowed Zephyr's voice, and gazed upon thee
With blue voluptuous eye) alas poor flower!
These are but flatteries of the faithless year.
Perchance, escaped its unknown polar cave,
E'en now the keen north-east is on its way.
Flower that must perish! shall I liken thee
To some sweet girl of too, too rapid growth,
Nipped by consumption mid untimely charms?
Or to Bristowa's bard, the wond'rous boy!
As amaranth, which earth scarce seemed to own,
Till disappointment come, and pelting wrong
Beat it to earth? or with indignant grief
Shall I compare thee to poor Poland's hope,
Bright flower of hope killed in the opening bud?
Farewell, sweet blossom! better fate be thine
And mock my boding! Dim similitudes
Weaving in moral strains, I've stolen one hour
From anxious self, life's cruel taskmaster!
And the warm wooings of this sunny day
Tremble along my frame, and harmonize
The attempered organ, that even saddest thoughts
Mix with some sweet sensations, like harsh tunes
Played deftly on a soft-toned instrument.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHDIJKLMNOPQJEEHRSTU |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011011101 11001011 11110111001 111101011 110100101110 11111011 0101101101 11101111111 10111011101 1111111101 1101010101 1111011 110111111 101010101 1111110101 1101111101 110111001001 111010111 011111 100101110110 110111010 001111101 100111010 0110110101 1111010111 1101011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,148 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 929 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 189 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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