Poem IV
The hills, that Morning's footsteps wake:The waves that takeA brightness from the Eve; the woodsAnd solitudes, o'er which Night broods,Their Spirits have, whose parts are oneWith him, whose mortal part is done.Whose part is done.
About this text
Poem IV 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, Poem IV, in Poems (1911), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #7796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/cawein-poems/poem-iv.html, id L10937.
Form and metre
Poem IV is 7 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 57% of the lines: octosyllabic couplets. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 93%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 6.9 syllables.
See other poems in octosyllabic couplets, 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 AA--BBB wakeA · takeA · woods · broods · oneB · doneB · doneB
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 |
|---|---|---|
| The hills, that Morning's footsteps wake: | 8 | ···/˘/·· |
| The waves that take | 4 | ···· |
| A brightness from the Eve; the woods | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| And solitudes, o'er which Night broods, | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| Their Spirits have, whose parts are one | 8 | ·/˘····· |
| With him, whose mortal part is done. | 8 | ···/˘··· |
| Whose part is done. | 4 | ···· |
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