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Aplolgia Pro Vita Sua

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)

The poet in his lone yet genial hour
Gives to his eyes a magnifying power :
Or rather he emancipates his eyes
From the black shapeless accidents of size--
In unctuous cones of kindling coal,
Or smoke upwreathing from the pipe's trim bole,
     His gifted ken can see
     Phantoms of sublimity.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABBCCDE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 295
Words 52
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. more…

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