...never completed. Of the two parts we have, one was written in 1797 and the other in 1800. The metre is founded on a new principle, " namely, that of counting...each line the accents will be found to be only four." The characters of Christabel, Sir Leoline, and the sorceress Geraldine are a little shadowy ; but when...

...says of the metre of Christabel applies equally to the ballad measure. "The metre of the Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not We need not at this point analyze the ballad metre in its details, classifying all the variations it...

...the course of the present year [ 1816]. . . . / have only to add, that the metre of the CHRISTABEL 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...

...words of Coleridge, written under, apparently, similar circumstances : ' The metre of Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...only four. Nevertheless, this occasional variation in the number of syllables js not introduced wantonly or for the mere ends of convenience, but in correspondence...

...the course of the present year [1816]. . . . / have only to add, that the metre of the CHRISTABEL 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...

...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...

...Modern English. The poet himself thought it so unusual that he says of it : " The metre of Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from ten to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless this occasional...

...Modern English. The poet himself thought it so unusual that he says of it : " The metre of Christabel is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...not the syllables. Though the latter may vary from ten to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only four. Nevertheless this occasional...

...proposition in public. In the preface to Christabel he says, " I have only to add that the metre is not, properly speaking, irregular, though it may seem...the accents, not the syllables. Though the latter (the syllables) may vary from seven to twelve, yet in each line the accents will be found to be only...

...lines being of four, others of twelve syllables, yet in reality it is quite regular ; only that it is " founded on a new principle, namely, that of counting in each line the accents, not the syllables." We say nothing of the monstrous assurance of any man coming forward coolly at this time of day, and...