In This Lime Tree Bower My Prison (by Samuel Coleridge) Coleridge escapes the concrete confines of the bower through an imaginative journey.

Coleridge begins the poem by referring to the bower as a `prison', creating the sense of being trapped in a dark, unsatisfying environment. This is contrasted in the third stanza where Coleridge describes the bower as little, "this little lime tree bower." The effect of the word `little' has the connotation of a pleasant, safe environment, showing the audience Coleridge's changed perspective.

Coleridges depressed mood is portrayed through long, dragging vowel sounds "Had dimmed mine eyes to blindness." During the second stanza Coleridge escapes into the freedom on nature "Hilly fields and meadows...