As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment)

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



As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood,
   That crests its Head with clouds, beneath the flood
   Feeds its deep roots, and with the bulging flank
   Of its wide base controls the fronting bank,
   (By the slant current's pressure scoop'd away
   The fronting bank becomes a foam-piled bay)
   High in the Fork the uncouth Idol knits
   His channel'd Brows; low murmurs stir by fits
   And dark below the horrid Faquir sits;
  An Horror from its broad Head's branchy wreath
  Broods o'er the rude Idolatry beneath--

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCDDEEEFF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 515
Words 87
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

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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