Editing Kubla Khan (section)

=== Sound ===
The poem's language is highly stylised with a strong emphasis on sound devices that change between the poem's original two [[stanza]]s. The poem relies on many sound-based techniques, including [[cognate]] variation and [[chiasmus]].<ref>Mays 2001 pp. 509–512</ref> In particular, the poem emphasises the use of the "æ" sound and similar modifications to the standard "a" sound to make the poem sound Asian. Its rhyme scheme found in the first seven lines is repeated in the first seven lines of the second stanza. There is a heavy use of [[assonance]] and [[alliteration]], especially in the first line: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan". The stressed sounds, "Xan", "du", "Ku", "Khan", contain assonance in their use of the sounds a-u-u-a, have two rhyming syllables with "Xan" and "Khan", and employ alliteration with the name "Kubla Khan" and the reuse of "d" sounds in "Xanadu" and "did". To pull the line together, the "i" sound of "In" is repeated in "did". Later lines do not contain the same amount of symmetry but do rely on assonance and rhymes throughout. Though the lines are interconnected, the rhyme scheme and line lengths are irregular.<ref>Schneider 1967 pp. 88–91</ref>