The Wounded Hussar
Lines Inscribed on the Monument lately finished by Mr.Chantrey, which has been Erected by the Widow ofAdmiral Sir G. Campbell, K.C.B., to the Memory ofher Husband
About this text
The Wounded Hussar is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, Project Gutenberg ebook #59788; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Thomas Campbell, The Wounded Hussar, in The Pleasures of Hope, and Other Poems (1824), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #59788, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/campbell-poems/the-wounded-hussar.html, id L24395.
Form and metre
The Wounded Hussar is 4 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 50% of the lines: heroic couplets. This poem did not settle on a metre of its own; the book it comes from is in iambic pentameter.
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 -AA- — · ofA · ofA · husband
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lines Inscribed on the Monument lately finished by Mr. | 14 | ·˘/··/˘/˘/˘·/˘ |
| Chantrey, which has been Erected by the Widow of | 13 | ·····˘/˘··/˘· |
| Admiral Sir G. Campbell, K.C.B., to the Memory of | 14 | /˘··/˘·····/˘· |
| her Husband | 3 | ·/˘ |
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