It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time once again and in celebration of #WorldPoetryDay today's question is about Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (he of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner').

One of STC's most famous poems is Kubla Khan. He claimed that the poem came to him in an opium induced dream one day when he was hanging around in Somerset, England. It was originally planned to be 200-300 lines long, but as he rushed to write it down on waking he was interrupted by "a person on business from Porlock" and he promptly forgot what he was going to write. How many lines of Kubla Khan did he manage to commit to paper before his interruption?

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34 lines
18.2%
54 lines
36.4%
74 lines
27.3%
94 lines
18.2%
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Kubla Khan is just 54 lines long. You can find them in all their splendour here https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Christabel;_Kubla_Khan;_The_Pains_of_Sleep_(1816)/Kubla_Khan
Christabel; Kubla Khan; The Pains of Sleep (1816)/Kubla Khan - Wikisource, the free online library

@puzzletrailpaul Call me sheltered, but to this point my knowledge of this poem was restricted to what I’d learned reading “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” by Douglas Adams.