Page 149 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
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“Kubla Khan”
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, pages 30-32
Vocabulary
sinuous – twisting
cedarn – cedar
chaffy – teasingly
dulcimer – an hourglass shaped instrument
1. With what meter and rhyme schemes does Coleridge achieve musical and rhythmic sound?
2. How does the fourth stanza differ in content from the poem’s first three stanzas?
3. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion” is an example of what literary device?
4. According to the introduction to Coleridge’s poetry, what may have aided him in making
this poem so fantastical?
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