H.F.S. E.K.R.
Cp. H. de Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie médiévale (Louvain andParis 1915), p. 332.
Mr. G. Bayley Dolson suggests with greater probability that I.T. wasJohn Thorpe (fl. 1570-1610), architect to Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset.
Words in this poem
- vale n.
- A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley. [OE. val, F. val, L. vallis; perhaps akin to Gr. Avalanche, Vail to lower, Valley.]
- thorpe n.
- A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. [AS. þorp; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D. dorp, G. dorf, Icel. þorp, Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little farm, Goth. þaúrp a field, and probably to Lith. tr]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
H.F.S. E.K.R. is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy, Project Gutenberg ebook #13316; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Boethius, H.F.S. E.K.R., in The Consolation of Philosophy (1918), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #13316, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/boethius-consolation/h-f-s-e-k-r.html, id L23699.
Form and metre
H.F.S. E.K.R. is 4 lines in 2 stanzas of 2 lines each. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cp. H. de Wulf, Histoire de la Philosophie médiévale (Louvain and | 19 | ··················· |
| Paris 1915), p. 332. | 3 | /˘· |
| Mr. G. Bayley Dolson suggests with greater probability that I.T. was | 20 | /˘·/˘/˘˘/·/˘·˘/˘···· |
| John Thorpe (fl. 1570-1610), architect to Thomas Sackville, Earl of Dorset. | 15 | ···/˘··/˘/···/˘ |
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