...of the Christabel is not, m-operly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so from its being fonnded on a new principle: namely, that of counting in each...accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary Irom seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only fonr. Nevertheless this...

...and waitl to show that there is nothing especially new in it. Even the author, who says that it is " founded on a new principle ; namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables," seems to have had only general ideas on the subject. We quote: - • " The love | ly la | dy, Christ...

...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 so from its being founded on a new principle : 3 namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter may vary...

...Chaucer." 2 " The metre of Christabcl is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem so, from being founded on a new principle, namely, that of...counting in each line the accents, not the syllables." Preface to the edition of 1816, Coleridge's works, Ed. Shedd, vii, p. 249. 'Otherwise entitled A Treatise...

...on the subject of Gilpin Homer." Coleridge's own remarks on the metre of Christabel are that it " is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...only four. Nevertheless this occasional variation in the number of syllables is not introduced wantonly, or for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence...

...In justifying himself from the charge of irregularity, he states in his Preface that the metre was ' founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting...each line the accents will be found to be only four.' This 'new principle' was butone main feature of a verse system which ' belonged to the antiquity of...

...In justifying himself from the charge of irregularity, he states in his Preface that the metre was ' founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting...each line the accents will be found to be only four.' This 'new principle 'was but one main feature of a verso system which ' belonged to the antiquity of...

...In justifying himself from the charge of irregularity, he states in his Preface that the metre was ' founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting...in each line the accents will be found to be only fotir.' This ' new principle ' was but one main feature of a verse system which ' belonged to the antiquity...

...In justifying himself from the charge of irregularity, he states in his Preface that the metre was ' founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting in each line .•"<•••-..„•'., not the ryllablei. Though the latter may vary from seven to twelve, yet...

...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...seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be 1 Tennyson's expression of the same thought is perhaps more familiar: " But there is, I fear, a prosaic...