Kubla Khan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCB DDBBBB EFGEFHHIJKKFFLCCLMN FBFBBB FBOOFBPBPFBFFFBQQB| In Xanadu did Kubla Khan | A |
| A stately pleasure dome decree | B |
| Where Alph the sacred river ran | C |
| Through caverns measureless to man | C |
| Down to a sunless sea | B |
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| So twice five miles of fertile ground | D |
| With walls and towers were girdled round | D |
| And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills | B |
| Where blossomed many an incense bearing tree | B |
| And here were forests ancient as the hills | B |
| Enfolding sunny spots of greenery | B |
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| But oh that deep romantic chasm which slanted | E |
| Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover | F |
| A savage place as holy and enchanted | G |
| As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted | E |
| By woman wailing for her demon lover | F |
| And from this chasm with ceaseless turmoil seething | H |
| As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing | H |
| A mighty fountain momently was forced | I |
| Amid whose swift half intermitted burst | J |
| Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail | K |
| Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail | K |
| And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever | F |
| It flung up momently the sacred river | F |
| Five miles meandering with a mazy motion | L |
| Through wood and dale the sacred river ran | C |
| Then reached the caverns measureless to man | C |
| And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean | L |
| And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far | M |
| Ancestral voices prophesying war | N |
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| The shadow of the dome of pleasure | F |
| Floated midway on the waves | B |
| Where was heard the mingled measure | F |
| From the fountain and the caves | B |
| It was a miracle of rare device | B |
| A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice | B |
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| A damsel with a dulcimer | F |
| In a vision once I saw | B |
| It was an Abyssinian maid | O |
| And on her dulcimer she played | O |
| Singing of Mount Abora | F |
| Could I revive within me | B |
| Her symphony and song | P |
| To such a deep delight 'twould win me | B |
| That with music loud and long | P |
| I would build that dome in air | F |
| That sunny dome those caves of ice | B |
| And all who heard should see them there | F |
| And all should cry Beware Beware | F |
| His flashing eyes his floating hair | F |
| Weave a circle round him thrice | B |
| And close your eyes with holy dread | Q |
| For he on honey dew hath fed | Q |
| And drunk the milk of Paradise | B |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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