The Death of Schiller
'Tis said, when Schiller's death drew nigh,The wish possessed his mighty mind,To wander forth wherever lieThe homes and haunts of human kind.
Words in this poem
- wherever adv.
- At or in whatever place; wheresoever.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
The Death of Schiller is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems by William Cullen Bryant, Project Gutenberg ebook #16341; 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 Cullen Bryant, The Death of Schiller, in Poems (1821–1876), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #16341, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/bryant-poems/the-death-of-schiller-2.html, id L07376.
Form and metre
The Death of Schiller is 4 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAB. The lines average 8.2 syllables.
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 ABAB nighA · mindB · lieA · kindB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 'Tis said, when Schiller's death drew nigh, | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| The wish possessed his mighty mind, | 9 | ··˘/˘·/˘· |
| To wander forth wherever lie | 8 | ·/˘·˘/˘· |
| The homes and haunts of human kind. | 8 | ·····/˘· |
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