Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year II
Then summon April forth, and sendCommandment through the flowers;About our woods your grace extendA queen of careless hours.For oh, not Vera veiled in rain,Nor Dian’s sacred Ring,With all her royal nymphs in trainCould so lead on the Spring.
Words in this poem
- commandment n.
- An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate. [OF. commandement, F. commandement.]
- veiled a.
- Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year II is in the public domain. This text is taken from Sonnets and Verse, Project Gutenberg ebook #60663; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Hilaire Belloc, Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year II, in Sonnets and Verse (1923), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #60663, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/belloc-sonnets-verse/inviting-the-influence-of-a-young-lady-upon-the-opening-year-2.html, id L21679.
Form and metre
Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year II is 8 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABABCDCD. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 98%).
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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 ABABCDCD sendA · flowersB · extendA · hoursB · rainC · ringD · trainC · springD
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. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Then summon April forth, and send | 8 | ·/˘/˘··· |
| Commandment through the flowers; | 7 | ˘/˘··/˘ |
| About our woods your grace extend | 8 | ··/···˘/ |
| A queen of careless hours. | 7 | ···/˘/˘ |
| For oh, not Vera veiled in rain, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Nor Dian’s sacred Ring, | 6 | ·/˘/˘· |
| With all her royal nymphs in train | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Could so lead on the Spring. | 6 | ······ |
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