Pausanias
And thou, then?I left thee supping with Peisianax,With thy head full of wine, and thy hair crowned,Touching thy harp as the whim came on thee,And praised and spoiled by master and by guestsAlmost as much as the new dancing-girl.Why hast thou followed us?
Words in this poem
- supping n.
- The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper.
- hast
- , 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Fave, contr. of havest.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Pausanias is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #54985; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Matthew Arnold, Pausanias, in Poems (1849–1867), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #54985, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/arnold-poems/pausanias.html, id L07027.
Form and metre
Pausanias is 7 lines in a single stanza. The lines average 8.4 syllables.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ----A-A then · peisianax · crowned · thee · guestsA · girl · usA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| And thou, then? | 3 | ··· |
| I left thee supping with Peisianax, | 9 | ···/˘···· |
| With thy head full of wine, and thy hair crowned, | 10 | ·········· |
| Touching thy harp as the whim came on thee, | 10 | /˘········ |
| And praised and spoiled by master and by guests | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Almost as much as the new dancing-girl. | 10 | /······/˘· |
| Why hast thou followed us? | 7 | ···/˘˘· |
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