by Coleridge · Cluster: Swords and Weapons · Power and Corruption · Tyrant
Abstract
A metrical experiment in amphibrachs celebrating Freedom’s triumph over Tyranny, with scansion notes; a prosodic study fused with a hymn to liberty against idolatry.
Connections
Archetypes: Tyrant Motifs: Wine and Drink, Stars Themes & Concepts: Power and Corruption Forms & Genres: Fragment, Ode
Testo integrale / Full text
I heard a voice pealing loud triumph to-day:
The voice of the Triumph, O Freedom, was thine!
Sumptuous Tyranny challeng’d the fray,
‘Drunk with Idolatry, drunk with wine.’
Whose could the Triumph be Freedom but thine?
Stars of the Heaven shine to feed thee;
Hush’d are the Whirl-blasts and heed thee; —
By her depth, by her height, Nature swears thou art mine!
- Amphibrach tetrameter catalectic Ø ¯ Ø | Ø ¯ Ø | Ø ¯ Ø | Ø ¯
- Ditto.
- Three pseudo amphimacers, and one long syllable.
- Two dactyls, and one perfect Amphimacer.
- = 1 and 2.
- ¯ Ø ¯ | ¯ Ø ¯ Ø |
- ¯ Ø ¯ | ¯ Ø ¯ Ø |
- ¯ Ø ¯ | ¯ Ø ¯, ¯ Ø ¯, ¯ Ø ¯
- Now first published from an MS.