Though we do not realize he is doing so until the stanza's last line, Coleridge continues to make use of the lute analogy in the third stanza. Here he compares the variety of thoughts that occur to him, in their seemingly haphazard but actually ordered fashion as he lies on the side of the hill, to the variety of notes that a lute player strikes while playing a melody. In the next short stanza that follows, Coleridge asks himself if nature itself is just the immanent manifestation of God's transcendent creative intelligence.