Parting at Morning
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountain's rim;And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me.
About this text
Parting at Morning is in the public domain. This text is taken from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning, Project Gutenberg ebook #28041; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Robert Browning, Parting at Morning, in Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning (1864), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #28041, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/browning-selections/parting-at-morning.html, id L25084.
Form and metre
Parting at Morning is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines.
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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 ABBA seaA · rimB · himB · meA
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. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| And the sun looked over the mountain's rim; | 10 | ·······/˘· |
| And straight was a path of gold for him, | 9 | ········· |
| And the need of a world of men for me. | 10 | ·········· |
On this poem
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