This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Xix. To A Friend, Who Asked How I Felt When The Nurse First Presented My Infant To Me that begins with:
Charles! my slow heart was only sad, when first
I scanned that face of feeble infancy;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbccbdeeded
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10111110111 1111010100 1101110101 1110111110 1111010101 1101010101 11001000101 1111110111 0101011101 01010110001 1101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, and are repeated.
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More information about poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Analysis of Sonnet Xv. To Schiller
- Analysis of To A Friend Who Had Declared His Intention Of Writing No More Poetry
- Analysis of Sonnet Xii. To Mrs. Siddons
