Coleridge's Cristabel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAAAAAABAABCCDDEEFF GGHHBBIIGG JJKLLMM NN| Mark yon runnel how tis flowing | A |
| Like a sylvan spirit dreaming | A |
| Of the spring blooms near it blowing | A |
| And the sunlight o er it beaming | A |
| Bright from bank to bank or growing | A |
| Darkly inter freaked when streaming | A |
| Where some willowy shade hangs bending | A |
| O er it in green mingled masses | B |
| Lights and shades and blossoms glowing | A |
| All for greater beauty blending | A |
| In its vision as it passes | B |
| Where that shelving rock is spied | C |
| There with a smooth warbling slide | C |
| It lapses down into a cool | D |
| And brimming not o erflowing pool | D |
| Then between its narrowed banks | E |
| Playing merry gurgling pranks | E |
| It gushes till a channel d stone | F |
| Gives it a more strenuous tone | F |
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| Then its bright curves flashing are | G |
| Like a mighty scimitar | G |
| Dropt by some Jove vanquished god | H |
| And sunk into the yielding sod | H |
| Or betwixt thick reeded beaches | B |
| It whispers low mysterious speeches | B |
| Or with an underswirling spread | I |
| Over a wide pebbled bed | I |
| It bubbles with a gentle pleasure | G |
| Ere some new mood change the measure | G |
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| Such a runnel typeth well | J |
| The sweet wild verse of Christabel | J |
| And if all suddenly at length | K |
| It sank a broken end to make | L |
| In some subterranean lake | L |
| A further type we might behold | M |
| Of the story half untold | M |
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| But what might picture to our view | N |
| The wonder world it warbles through | N |
Charles Harpur
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