Phantom Or Fact? A Dialogue In Verse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Author.
A lovely form there sate beside my bed,
And such a feeding calm its presence shed,
A tender love so pure from earthly leaven
That I unnethe the fancy might control,
'Twas my own spirit newly come from heaven
Wooing its gentle way into my soul!
But ah! the change -- It had not stirred, and yet
Alas! that change how fain would I forget?
That shrinking back, like one that had mistook!
That weary, wandering, disavowing Look!
'Twas all another, feature, look and frame,
And still, methought, I knew it was the same!
Friend.
This riddling Tale, to what does it belong?
Is't History? Vision? or an idle Song?
Or rather say at once, within what space
Of Time this wild disastrous change took place?
Author.
Call it a moment's work (and such it seems),
This Tale's a Fragment from the Life of Dreams;
But say, that years matured the silent strife,
And 'tis a Record from the Dream of Life.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | Abbcdcdeeffgg xhhii Ajjkk |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 879 |
Words | 165 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 5, 5 |
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