The Two Founts. Stanzas Addressed To A Lady On Her Recovery, With Unblemished Looks, From A Severe Attack Of Pain by Samuel Taylor Coleridge: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Two Founts. Stanzas Addressed To A Lady On Her Recovery, With Unblemished Looks, From A Severe Attack Of Pain that begins with:

'Twas my last waking thought, how it could be,
That thou, sweet friend, such anguish should'st endure... full text

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  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, less, sweet are repeated.

    The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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