An Experiment For A Metre

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Title:     An Experiment For A Metre
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [More Titles by Coleridge]

I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day:
The voice of the Triumph, O Freedom, was thine!
Sumptuous Tyranny challeng'd the fray,
'Drunk with Idolatry, drunk with wine.'
Whose could the Triumph be Freedom but thine?
Stars of the Heaven shine to feed thee;
Hush'd are the Whirl-blasts and heed thee;--
By her depth, by her height, Nature swears thou art mine!

1. Amphibrach tetrameter catalectic [breve macron breve] | [breve macron breve] | [breve macron breve] | [breve macron]

2. Ditto.

3. Three pseudo amphimacers, and one long syllable.

4. Two dactyls, and one perfect Amphimacer.

5. = 1 and 2.

6. [macron breve macron] | [macron breve macron breve] |

7. [macron breve macron] | [macron breve macron breve] |

8. [macron breve macron] | [macron breve macron], [macron breve macron], [macron breve macron]

1801

[The end]
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Experiment For A Metre

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