cadence-changes

Updated: May 6, 2025

The wonderful cadence-changes of Kubla Khan, its phrases, culminating in the famous distich so well descriptive of Coleridge himself For he on honey dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise, the splendid crash of the Ancestral voices prophesying war, are all part of this note and cry.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)