This is an analysis of The Blossing Of The Solitary Date-Tree by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Beneath the blaze of a tropical sun the mountain peaks are the Thrones of
Frost, through the absence of objects to reflect the rays. `What no one…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abb c XcXd X eXeafgf X hihbihbjXj X cdcdggg i igigccX i gkgkiii
  • Stanza lengths: 3,1,4,1,7,1,10,1,7,1,7,1,7,
  • Metre: 0101001001010110100 1101001000101111 0111111010001 01010110101 010110010100101010 10001010100011011 11100011000100101010 11000010 1 0100110100101010101 100010010001011000 1010001000110110011 10100001001100011010 0010001100001011011 110010010110100101 1001101111101110010 1 1010101001 11000101101 1011010101 0101010001 1101010101 0111011101 1101110011 11110010111 0001010101 11000110011 1 1101010111 1100010001 1011010111 0101110111 101111111 1101000101 110011110001 1 0100010101 11001110101 1100110101 1111010101 0101011111 1101100101 100101110110 1 1011110101 1101110101 1101111101 0101111101 1111010101 11011011111 111111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 13
  • Lines: 52

Repeated words/phrases

of, it, and, to, my

Epiphora

one