To, Minna, Whose Smile Is My Throne
Some of the poems which compose this book have appeared in the YaleReview, the Smart Set, the New Republic, Reedy’s Mirror, theDial, the Touchstone, the Little Review, Poetry: A Magazine ofVerse, the Century, and the New York Tribune. They are good, inspite of their numerous appearances.
Words in this poem
- republic n.
- Common weal. B. Jonson. [F. république, L. respublica commonwealth; res a thing, an affair + publicus, publica, public. See Real, a., and Public.]
- touchstone n.
- Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
To, Minna, Whose Smile Is My Throne is in the public domain. This text is taken from Advice: A Book of Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #60252; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Maxwell Bodenheim, To, Minna, Whose Smile Is My Throne, in Advice: A Book of Poems (1920), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #60252, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/bodenheim-advice/to-minna-whose-smile-is-my-throne.html, id L23363.
Form and metre
To, Minna, Whose Smile Is My Throne is 5 lines in a single stanza. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic tetrameter.
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Some of the poems which compose this book have appeared in the Yale | 16 | ···/˘·˘/···˘/··· |
| Review, the Smart Set, the New Republic, Reedy’s Mirror, the | 15 | ·/·····˘/˘/˘/˘· |
| Dial, the Touchstone, the Little Review, Poetry: A Magazine of | 17 | /˘·/··/˘·//˘·/˘·· |
| Verse, the Century, and the New York Tribune. They are good, in | 14 | ··/˘····/˘···· |
| spite of their numerous appearances. | 9 | ···/˘˘/˘˘ |
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