Field and Forest Call I
There is a field, that leans upon two hills,Foamed o'er of flowers and twinkling with clear rills;That in its girdle of wild acres bearsThe anodyne of rest that cures all cares;Wherein soft wind and sun and sound are blentWith fragrance--as in some old instrumentSweet chords;--calm things, that Nature's magic spellDistills from Heaven's azure crucible,And pours on Earth to make the sick mind well.There lies the path, they say--Come away! come away!
Words in this poem
- twinkling n.
- The act of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland.
- blent p. p.
- Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Field and Forest Call I is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #7796; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Madison Julius Cawein, Field and Forest Call I, in Poems (1911), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #7796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/cawein-poems/field-and-forest-call-i.html, id L10878.
Form and metre
Field and Forest Call I is 11 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 73% of the lines: heroic couplets. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 83%). 92% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 9.1 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 36% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
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 AABBCCDDDEE hillsA · rillsA · bearsB · caresB · blentC · instrumentC · spellD · crucibleD · wellD · sayE · awayE
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 |
|---|---|---|
| There is a field, that leans upon two hills, | 10 | ·········· |
| Foamed o'er of flowers and twinkling with clear rills; | 10 | ···/·/˘··· |
| That in its girdle of wild acres bears | 10 | ···/˘··/˘· |
| The anodyne of rest that cures all cares; | 10 | ·/˘˘······ |
| Wherein soft wind and sun and sound are blent | 10 | ·········· |
| With fragrance--as in some old instrument | 10 | ·/˘····/˘˘ |
| Sweet chords;--calm things, that Nature's magic spell | 10 | ·····/˘/˘· |
| Distills from Heaven's azure crucible, | 10 | ˘/·/˘/˘/˘˘ |
| And pours on Earth to make the sick mind well. | 10 | ·········· |
| There lies the path, they say-- | 6 | ······ |
| Come away! come away! | 6 | ·˘/·˘/ |
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