...Christabel etwas darauf zu Gute that, ein neues Princip erfunden, m' haben [105: the metre of Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Tluough the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be...

...being jounded on a new principle: namely, that of countfng m each line the accents, not the syüables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each Une the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless this occasional Variation in number of...

...pood friend! for I Am 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...Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in earh line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in the...

...good friend ! for I Am 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...principle : namely, that of counting in each line the aceents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents...

...good friend ! for I Am the poorer of the two. I have only to add, that the metre of the Cbristabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...being founded on a new principle : namely, that of connting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Thongh the latter may vary from seven to twelve,...

...that the metre of the ' Christabel ' is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem to be so from its being founded on a new (?) principle :...each line the accents will be found to be only four." The normal form of the line of the present poem is that simple one of eight syllables, consisting of...

...that the metre of the ' Christabel' is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem to be so from its being founded on a new (?) principle :...namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not tho syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be...

...good friend ! for I Am 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...each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the hitter may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents wilL be. found to be only four....

...Rood friend ! for I Am 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...its being founded on a new principle : namely, that ofcountine in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve,...

...line the number of accentuated words, not the number of syllables. " Though the latter," he says, " may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four." This irregular harmony delighted both Scott and Byron, by whom it was imitated. COLERIDGE PREACHING....