Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year I
You wear the morning like your dressAnd are with mastery crowned;Whenas you walk your lovelinessGoes shining all around.Upon your secret, smiling waySuch new contents were found,The Dancing Loves made holidayOn that delightful ground.
Words in this poem
- loveliness n.
- The state or quality of being lovely. [From Lovely.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year I 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 I, 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.html, id L21678.
Form and metre
Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady upon the Opening Year I is 8 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABABCBCB. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%).
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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 ABABCBCB dressA · crownedB · lovelinessA · aroundB · wayC · foundB · holidayC · groundB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| You wear the morning like your dress | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| And are with mastery crowned; | 7 | ···/˘˘· |
| Whenas you walk your loveliness | 8 | /˘···/˘˘ |
| Goes shining all around. | 6 | ·/˘··· |
| Upon your secret, smiling way | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| Such new contents were found, | 6 | ··/˘·· |
| The Dancing Loves made holiday | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| On that delightful ground. | 6 | ··˘/˘· |
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