This is an analysis of Sonnet Xix. To A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt When The Nurse First Presented My Infant To Me by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first
I scanned that face of feeble infancy;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbccbdeeded
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10111110111 1111010100 1101110101 1110111110 1111010101 1101010101 11001000101 1111110111 0101011101 01010110001 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
my, and
