The Dulcimer and Musicality, Kublah Kahn

The Kublah Kahn PCR

Musicality, Verse rhythm and The Dulcimer

Dear Listeners,

The Dulcimer is a fascinating musical instrument, with three strings
to its body and forms part of the image the poet uses in the last Stanza of the Abyssinian maid, playing on her Dulcimer.

The image forms part of the poets dream, to recreate her with the
Sunny Pleasure dome in the air. 'Could I revive within me her symphony and song' is part of the musicality and rhythm the poet
hears and is reflected in the rhyme meter, which simplifies to a Trochaic tetrameter rhyme scheme in this last stanza.
This trochee meter has four stresses per verse line and can be read as as ti tum ti tum ti tum, that go from short to long stresses, giving
the verse line a faster rhythm.

The stanzas, which come before have longer verse line patterns known as Iambic Tretrameter. The trochee verse meter has a
characteristic forward movement when spoken and was typically used by the Victorian poets.Coleridge used it a lot in his poems and the distinct meter shapes this verse poem known as lyric. A lyric
also has rhyming and alternate rhyme endings, that are found in the
verse Stanzas. Lyrics in the early 16th Century were poems originally accompanied to music, and the musical quality can be
heard in the verse rhythm of the Kublah Kahn and conveyed in it's images like the Abyssinian maid.
I hope you enjoyed listening to the poem
and you could find a sense of the rhythm in the verse meter.
Coleridge was a visionary poet and used used a lot of metaphoric
nature imagery, the seal the sun, the moon the stars.
We have more poems from Samuel Taylor Colerdige including
'. The Ryhme of the Ancyient Mariner' to come, so look out and
keep listening.

In the mean time a good way to practice and explore the meter and
rhyme scheme of a poem is to say it out loud. ' The Art of Reading Poetry out loud' Storynory PCR you may find useful
It links to other Victorian poets in the Storynory Classics collection including William Wordsworth, who also lyric poems and who
Coleridge collaborated with to write his poetry.
//storynory.com/?s=The+Art+of+Reading+poetry+out+loud

Thanks for listening

Bye Bye

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