FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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Question
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Iambic tetrameter
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Iambic pentameter
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Troachic pentameter
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Spondaic tetrameter
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Detailed explanation-1: -Kubla Khan is an intricately structured poem, using a amazing variety of metric and rhythmic devices. Lines 1 to 7 and 37 to 54 are written primarily in iambic tetrameter. When the line is read aloud, the emphasis falls on every second syllable.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tone-Mysterious, Coleridge describes forces of nature in a mystical way.
Detailed explanation-3: -Kubla Khan, in full Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream, poetic fragment by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, published in 1816. According to Coleridge, he composed the 54-line work while under the influence of laudanum, a form of opium.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most modern critics now view Kubla Khan as one of Coleridge’s three great poems, along with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel. The poem is considered one of the most famous examples of Romanticism in English poetry, and is one of the most frequently anthologized poems in the English language.
Detailed explanation-5: -The first stanza is written in tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of ABAABCCDEDE, alternating between staggered rhymes and couplets. The second stanza expands into tetrameter and follows roughly the same rhyming pattern, also expanded-ABAABCCDDFFGGHIIHJJ. The third stanza tightens into tetrameter and rhymes ABABCC.