SHAKSPER 2001: Re: Coleridge Explanation of Verse

From: Hardy M. Cook (editor@ws.bowiestate.edu)
Date: 04/05/01 

The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 12.0774  Thursday, 5 April 2001

[1]     From:   Nicol Ariel <nicol_ariel@yahoo.co.uk>
        Date:   Wednesday, 04 Apr 2001 18:00:41 +0700
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse

[2]     From:   Phil Rogers <rogersp@qsilver.queensu.ca>
        Date:   Wednesday, 04 Apr 2001 12:51:31 -0400
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse

[3]     From:   Fran Teague <fteague@arches.uga.edu>
        Date:   Wednesday, 4 Apr 2001 15:26:30 -0400 (EDT)
        Subj:   Re: SHK 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse


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From:           Nicol Ariel <nicol_ariel@yahoo.co.uk>
Date:           Wednesday, 04 Apr 2001 18:00:41 +0700
Subject: 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse

> I used to have a short poem that Coleridge wrote for his son that gave
> examples of different types of scansion, (it would be great for my
> Shakespeare text class), but I have unfortunately lost it.  Does anyone
> know of it, or have a copy?
>
> Thank you,
> Jim Helsinger

  "Metrical Feet" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

    Troche trips from long to short.
    From long to long in solemn sort
    Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able
    Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.
    Iambics march from short to long;--
    With a leap and a bound the swift anapests throng.

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From:           Phil Rogers <rogersp@qsilver.queensu.ca>
Date:           Wednesday, 04 Apr 2001 12:51:31 -0400
Subject: 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse

I think the poem you're looking for is called "Metrical Feet."  It's not
in my Everyman Coleridge nor in Perkins's anthology, but presumably is
in the OSA Coleridge or some other collected edition.

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From:           Fran Teague <fteague@arches.uga.edu>
Date:           Wednesday, 4 Apr 2001 15:26:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse
Comment:        Re: SHK 12.0768 Coleridge Explanation of Verse

Jim Helsinger asks for Coleridge's little poem on prosody. I have it on
one of my advice pages: the URL is
http://www.arches.uga.edu/~fteague/meters.html

Enjoy!

Fran Teague <http://www.arches.uga.edu/~fteague>

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