LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Whereblossomed many an incense bearing tree
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Throughcaverns measureless to man down to a sunless sea
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Asever beneath a waning moon was haunted by woman wailing for her demon lover
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Hugefragments vaulted like rebounding hail, or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’sflail
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail” and “with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing” are examples of similes in the poem.
Detailed explanation-2: -The chant-like, musical incantations of “Kubla Khan” result from Coleridge’s masterful use of iambic tetrameter and alternating rhyme schemes. The first stanza is written in tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAABCCDEDE, alternating between staggered rhymes and couplets.
Detailed explanation-3: -The chasm cuts a path “athwart a cedarn cover” which means that the entire hillside is covered in cedar trees.
Detailed explanation-4: -According to Coleridge’s account, the poem is an incomplete fragment. Originally, he says, his dream included between 200 and 300 lines, but he was only able to compose the first 30 before he was interrupted. The second stanza is not necessarily part of the original dream and refers to the dream in the past tense.