...matter of feet will reveal something ; it will be seen more definitely that their variations are ' not introduced wantonly, or for the mere ends of convenience,...transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion '. The first passage is from chap. Ixxi of The Decline and Fall. The reader will please to neglect...

...sleepeth well. Coleridge thought that he had discovered something new, for he says in his preface: is not introduced wantonly, or for the mere ends of...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." Scott, Byron and others followed Coleridge's example, making free use of the four-beat verse among...

...each line the accents, not the syllables." "Nevertheless," he declared, "this occasional variation.. .is not introduced wantonly, or for the mere ends...with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion."3 It was in 1802, when he had left behind joumalistic work and scientific speculation in order...

...not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being founded on a new principle: 25 namely, that of counting in each line the accents,...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;...

...meter of "Christabel": 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. This, in its entirety, is the seed from which both of the kudzu-like notions hiding in the term "accentual...

...made the difference was Coleridge's handling of the meter, hinted at in the last line of the preface: "Nevertheless, this occasional variation in number...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." Thus in the two opening lines the verse begins quickly with twelve and eleven syllables respectively,...

...goes on to describe the oldest meter in the language. Yet Coleridge also felt obliged to insist that "this occasional variation in number of syllables...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion" (27, 25). Once convention has included a rhythmic element in the dominant meter, the poet cannot lightly...

...poem "Christabel," Coleridge defended his revival of an apparently irregular meter with the claim that "this occasional variation in number of syllables...transition in the nature of the imagery or passion." I've mentioned that a few of my early poems attempt to insist that the reader employ a high degree...

...audience by introducing a prose preface in 1816. There he attempted to explain his meter as varied only "in correspondence with some transition, in the nature of the imagery or passion" (Complete Poetical Works r. 215). Coleridge's note is in the British Library copy of Shakespeare's...

...to add that the metre of Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from being founded on a new principle: namely, that of...with some transition in the nature of the imagery or passion.61 For Coleridge, the counting of accent rather than syllable frees the English poetic line...