This is an analysis of Written In Early Youth. The Time,--An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
O thou wild fancy, check thy wing! No more
Those thin white flakes, those purple clouds explore!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff gghHiXjjbbhHbbkklliiddbb caahaachkkjjccllmmeehhiigghhmmbbbbhh ggaannccdd XXXgXgcchhccbbbbkkeeXddhhii
- Stanza lengths: 12,24,36,10,27,
- Metre: 1111011111 1111110101 1101010111 1011010101 1011110101 0101010101 1101010101 01001010101 10100010101 1101100101001 11010101110 110101010010 1101010101 11010011101 0101110101 1101000111 1110010101 11010111000 1111010111 1111110111 10111110111 110010100101 1101110101 1101000111 1101110101 10101110011 11011100101 1101010101 10110010111 1101010101 01010100111 1111010111 0001010111 0011010001 1101110101 11001001101 1001110101 01001101101 1011010111 1111010101 1011000111 1001100001 1101110111 1111010001 10010101110 11010100010 11011111001 11011010101 0101010101 0101110001 1101011101 0101110101 1001110101 1001110101 1111110101 1101110101 111110111001 01010100101 1111010101 110100101001 01001010111 01110100101 1101001101 1111110101 1111010101 0111100101 1001100101 1101110101 1101110111 0111011001 1101000101 1101000101 1101010101 1101011001 10001010001 011011101 01110010101 11010101001 1111011101 1101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1101111100 1010111101 110111110 1101000101 110101011 1101010011 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1100010101 0101010101 1111110001 1110111001 1111110101 0101011101 1101011101 01111100101 1101010101 1111011101 1011010111 1111110101 1011000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 108
Repeated words/phrases
my, her, maid, where, with
Anaphora
i, with, no, a, where
Epiphora
light, frame
