This is an analysis of The Blossoming Of The Solitary Date-Tree. A Lament by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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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 with us shares, seems scarce our own.' The presence of a ONE,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab c d XX XeaebaebfXf Xcdcdggg aagagccX aghghaaa
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,1,2,11,8,8,8,
- Metre: 1 010100100101011010011010010001011110111111010001 01010110101 010110010100101010100010101000110111110001100010010101011000010 1 010011010010101010110001001000101100010100010001101100111010000100110001101000100011000010110111100100101101001011001101111101110010 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: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
of, it, and, to, more, my, sweet
