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Title: Experiments In Metre
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge [
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There in some darksome shade
Methinks I'd weep
Myself asleep,
And there forgotten fade.
[First published from an MS. in 1893.]
Once again, sweet Willow, wave thee!
Why stays my Love?
Bend, and in yon streamlet--lave thee!
Why stays my Love?
Oft have I at evening straying,
Stood, thy branches long surveying,
Graceful in the light breeze playing,--
Why stays my Love?
1. Four Trochees /.
2. One spondee, Iambic \.
3. Four Trochees 1.
4. Repeated from 2.
5, 6, 7. A triplet of 4 Trochees--8 repeated.
[First published from an MS. in 1893.]
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Songs of Shepherds and rustical Roundelays,
Forms of Fancies and whistled on Reeds,
Songs to solace young Nymphs upon Holidays
Are too unworthy for wonderful deeds--
Round about, hornéd
Lucinda they swarméd,
And her they informéd,
How minded they were,
Each God and Goddess,
To take human Bodies
As Lords and Ladies to follow the Hare.
[Now first published from an MS.]
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem: Experiments In Metre
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