...verse. In his introduction to this poem he says, "The meter of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion." Coleridge did good service in delivering English verse from the fetters in which it had been bound...

...from its being founded ISdUs* 5 on a new principle, namely, that of counting, in each line, P™""* the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." What Christabel metre really was has been expounded earlier, and its author's account of it is not...

...only four. Nevertheless, the occasional variation in number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, but in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion. The correspondence of sound and meaning in the passage quoted is thus explained by Johnson (Forms of...

...Christabel, and Goethe's Erl King, has several variations introduced (as Coleridge says of his own) ' in correspondence with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.' The ' new principle,' in short, was Chatterton's. " Again, in the mysterious suggestiveness of remote...

...each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless, this occasional variation in the number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, or...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." Effect of the French Revolution. — The French Revolution at its beginning had a most appealing effect...

...each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless, this occasional variation in the number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, or...convenience, but in correspondence with some transition in thenature of the imagery or passion." Effect of the French Revolution. — The French Revolution at...

...from its being founded on a new principle : namely, that of counting in each line the accents, and not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion.' In illustration of this system, as worked out in the poem, we may quote 1 They crossed the moat, and...

...seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents 4 Part I written 1797, Part II 1800, both published 1816. will be found to be only four. Nevertheless, this...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." Here is the much discussed opening of the poem: "Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the...

...poorer of the two. ' ' I have only to add, that the metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded...transition, in the nature of the imagery Or passion. PART I. 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock, And the owls have awakened the crowing cock,...

...regularity not of syllables but of accent. He then goes on to say: The occasional variation in the number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, or...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion. So it is with poems by other hands. Ultimately, the individuality of form in Eliot's poetry is dictated...