08-12-2020, 02:22 AM
As Exit points out, Coleridge's 'Rime' was in couplets. Actually, so was 'Christabel'. The meter, however, is quite different:
'it IS an ANcient MAriNER and he STOPpeth ONE of THREE
by thy HAND and EYE thou GREYbeard LOON now WHEREfore STOPPETH thou ME'
as I recall.
I'm not the world's best at scansion - the late Leanne was the nonpareil in that department - but you get the idea.
Not familiar with WW's longer rhyming works (The Prelude or Tintern Abbey don't rhyme, as I recall) or Blake's. A lot of Blake is quite terrible by present day standards and is only read as a historical curiosity, much like Shakespeare's mundane sonnets, let's admit it.
'it IS an ANcient MAriNER and he STOPpeth ONE of THREE
by thy HAND and EYE thou GREYbeard LOON now WHEREfore STOPPETH thou ME'
as I recall.
I'm not the world's best at scansion - the late Leanne was the nonpareil in that department - but you get the idea.
Not familiar with WW's longer rhyming works (The Prelude or Tintern Abbey don't rhyme, as I recall) or Blake's. A lot of Blake is quite terrible by present day standards and is only read as a historical curiosity, much like Shakespeare's mundane sonnets, let's admit it.