Sonnet XVIII. To The Autumnal Moon
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 (Ottery St Mary) – 1834 (Highgate)
Mild Splendor of the various-vested Night!
Mother of wildly-working visions! hail!
I watch thy gliding, while with watery light
Thy weak eye glimmers through a fleecy veil;
And when thou lovest thy pale orb to shroud
Behind the gather'd blackness lost on high;
And when thou dartest from the wind-rent cloud
Thy placid lightning o'er th' awakened sky.
Ah, such is Hope! As changeful and as fair!
Now dimly peering on the wistful sight;
Now hid behind the dragon-wing'd Despair:
But soon emerging in her radiant might
She o'er the sorrow-clouded breast of Care
Sails, like a meteor kindling in its flight.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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Scheme | ABABCDCDEAEAEA |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 601 |
Words | 104 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
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