Christabel is one of my favorite poems by English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834). Seduction, deception, wicked witchery, innocence lost, as Christabel meets a beautiful damsel in distress in the forest, and fatefully invites her back to the castle of her father. Jump to Poem Coleridge wrote Christabel using an accentual metrical system , This poem is composed to four accents per line, regardless of syllable count. The names "Geraldine" and "Leoline" rhy