Whom should I choose for my Judge? (fragment)

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



Whom should I choose for my Judge? the earnest, impersonal reader,
   Who, in the work, forgets me and the world and himself!

   Ye who have eyes to detect, and Gall to Chastise the imperfect,
   Have you the heart, too, that loves, feels and rewards the Compleat?

   What is the meed of thy Song? 'Tis the ceaseless, the thousandfold Echo
   Which from the welcoming Hearts of the Pure repeats and prolongs it,
   Each with a different Tone, compleat or in musical fragments.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 25, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX AA XXX
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 479
Words 83
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3

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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