The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept II
It told the triumphs of our King,lfIt wafted glory to our God;It made our gladdened valleys ring,The cedars bow, the mountains nod;Its sound aspired to Heaven and there abode!Since then, though heard on earth no more,lgDevotion and her daughter LoveStill bid the bursting spirit soarTo sounds that seem as from above,In dreams that day's broad light can not remove.
Words in this poem
- abode n.
- Act of waiting; delay. [OE. abad, abood, fr. abiden to abide. See Abide. For the change of vowel, cf. abode, imp. of abide.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept II is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3, Project Gutenberg ebook #21811; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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Form and metre
The Harp the Monarch Minstrel Swept II is 10 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 89%).
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.
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 -A-A--B-BB king,lf · godA · ring · nodA · abode · more,lg · loveB · soar · aboveB · removeB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| It told the triumphs of our King,lf | 9 | ···/˘·/·· |
| It wafted glory to our God; | 8 | ·/˘/˘·/· |
| It made our gladdened valleys ring, | 8 | ··//˘/˘· |
| The cedars bow, the mountains nod; | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| Its sound aspired to Heaven and there abode! | 10 | ··˘/·/··˘/ |
| Since then, though heard on earth no more,lg | 9 | ········· |
| Devotion and her daughter Love | 8 | ˘/˘··/˘· |
| Still bid the bursting spirit soar | 8 | ···/˘/˘· |
| To sounds that seem as from above, | 8 | ········ |
| In dreams that day's broad light can not remove. | 10 | ········˘/ |
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