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The poem received mixed reviews from critics, and Coleridge was once told by the publisher that most of the book's sales were to sailors who thought it was a naval songbook. Coleridge made several modifications to the poem over the years. In the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, published in 1800, he replaced many of the archaic words.
This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight. This alphabetical list is incomplete, as the label of long poem is selectively and inconsistently applied in ...
Stanzas 1, 2, 4, and 6 employ end rhyme in their second and fourth lines, but some of these are only close rhyme or eye rhyme. In the third stanza, there is no end rhyme, but "ring" in line 2 rhymes with "gazing" and "setting" in lines 3 and 4 respectively. Internal rhyme is scattered throughout.
Work without Hope. "All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair—" 1825, February 21 1828 Sancti Dominici Pallium. A Dialogue between Poet and Friend. Found Written on the Blank Leaf at the Beginning of Butler's. 'book of the Church' (1825) "I note the moods and feelings men betray," 1825 or 1826 1827, May 21 Song. ('Though veiled,' &c.)
A long poem allows the author to be encyclopedic in their treatment of the world, as opposed to the potentially narrow focus of the lyric. A long poem poet can work on a long poem their entire life, weaving in their impressions gleaned from the span of several generations (and historical events); it can be an ongoing work.
A merry Christmas-day. – L.A. Franc. 24. When Santa Claus Comes. A good time is coming, I wish it were here, The very best time in the whole of the year; I’m counting each day on my fingers ...
" To-day, from each and all, a breath of prayer—a pulse of thought," Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV. Sands at Seventy) 1888, February 12 Adieu to a Soldier " Adieu O soldier," Leaves of Grass (Book XXI. Drum-Taps) ; The Patriotic Poems I (Poems of War) ; After the Dazzle of Day " After the Dazzle of Day" Leaves of Grass (Book XXXIV.
Against a tide of weariness, I have two pieces of advice on this Earth Day, embedded in National Poetry Month: start a garden, and read or write a poem, writes Tess Taylor.