From the Same
Thou roamest o'er Lyceus' shaggy brow,Or Moenalaus, outstretched in amplest shade,Thy solitary footsteps have delayed;Leave Helice's romantic rock a while,And haste, oh haste, to the Sicilian isle;Leave the dread monument, approached with fear,That Lycaonian tomb the gods revere.Here cease, Sicilian Muse, the Doric lay;--Come, Forest King, and bear this pipe away;Daphnis, subdued by love, and bowed with woe,Sinks, sinks for ever to the shades below.
Words in this poem
- sicilian a.
- Of or pertaining to Sicily or its inhabitants. Sicilian vespers, the great massacre of the French in Sicily, in the year 1282, on the evening of Easter Monday, at the hour of vespers.
- isle v. t.
- To cause to become an island, or like an island; to surround or encompass; to island.
- revere v. t.
- To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe or fear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation. [L. revereri; pref. re- re- + vereri to fear, perh. akin to E. wary: cf. F. révérer.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
From the Same is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan, Project Gutenberg ebook #18915; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: William Lisle Bowles, From the Same, in The Poetical Works, Volume I (1789–1837), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #18915, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/bowles-sonnets/from-the-same-2.html, id L18567.
Form and metre
From the Same is 11 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 91% of the lines: heroic couplets. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 88% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 9.8 syllables.
See other poems in heroic couplets, other poems in iambic pentameter.
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 -AABBCCDDEE brow · shadeA · delayedA · whileB · isleB · fearC · revereC · layD · awayD · woeE · belowE
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 pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Thou roamest o'er Lyceus' shaggy brow, | 9 | ·/˘···/˘· |
| Or Moenalaus, outstretched in amplest shade, | 10 | ····˘/·/˘· |
| Thy solitary footsteps have delayed; | 10 | ·/˘·˘/··˘/ |
| Leave Helice's romantic rock a while, | 10 | ·/˘˘˘/˘··· |
| And haste, oh haste, to the Sicilian isle; | 10 | ······˘/˘· |
| Leave the dread monument, approached with fear, | 10 | ···/˘˘˘/·· |
| That Lycaonian tomb the gods revere. | 9 | ·······˘/ |
| Here cease, Sicilian Muse, the Doric lay;-- | 10 | ··˘/˘··/˘· |
| Come, Forest King, and bear this pipe away; | 10 | ·/˘·····˘/ |
| Daphnis, subdued by love, and bowed with woe, | 10 | /˘˘/······ |
| Sinks, sinks for ever to the shades below. | 10 | ···/˘····· |
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