Analysis of The Rose
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
As late each flower that sweetest blows
I pluck'd, the Garden's pride!
Within the petals of a Rose
A sleeping Love I 'spied.
Around his brows a beamy wreath
Of many a lucent hue;
All purple glow'd his cheek, beneath,
Inebriate with the dew.
I softly seiz'd th' unguarded Power,
Nor scar'd his balmy rest:
And plac'd him, cag'd within the flower,
On spotless Sara's breast.
But when unweeting of the guile
Awoke the pris'ner sweet,
He struggled to escape awhile
And stamp'd his faery feet.
Ah! soon the soul entrancing sight
Subdued th' impatient boy!
He gaz'd! he thrill'd with deep delight!
Then clapp'd his wings for joy.
'And O!' he cried -- 'Of magic kind
What charms this Throne endear!
Some other Love let Venus find
I'll fix my empire here.'
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 111101101 110101 01010101 010111 0111011 1100101 11011101 010101 11011101010 111101 011101010 110101 111101 01011 11010101 01111 110111 01110101 11111101 111111 01111101 111101 11011101 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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