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Wordsworth is not often considered a prophet of modernist poetics. That honour usually goes to Coleridge, with his experiments in irregular syllable counts in "Christabel" in the name of matching the metre to the passion, and his insistence on this principle more generally in the notion of organic form. As Donald Wesling and others have pointed out, the principles of organic form demand that metre be derived "from within" the poetic content, or the poet's interior intention, which sponsors most of the modernist arguments for free verse (The New Poetries 64). "Since Dryden," ...

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