by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A nonsense jeu d’esprit built on a chain of ‘-ocular’ rhymes about unilocular hearts, roquelaures and periwinkles; comic verbal play and wit for its own sake.
Connections
Motifs: Winter, Clothing and Costume Themes & Concepts: Paradox, Joy Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Of one scrap of science I’ve evidence ocular.
A heart of one chamber they call unilocular,
And in a sharp frost, or when snow-flakes fall floccular,
Your wise man of old wrapp’d himself in a Roquelaure,
Which was called a Wrap-rascal when folks would be jocular.
And shell-fish, the small, Periwinkle and Cockle are,
So with them will I finish these verses trivocular.
Now first published from an MS.