Requiem I
No more for him, where hills look down,Shall Morning crownHer rainy brow with blossom bands!--The Morning Hours, whose rosy handsDrop wildflowers of the breaking skiesUpon the sod 'neath which he lies.--No more for him! No more! No more!
Words in this poem
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Requiem 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, Requiem I, in Poems (1911), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #7796, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/cawein-poems/requiem-i.html, id L10934.
Form and metre
Requiem I is 7 lines in a single stanza. It is in rhyming couplets, 86% of the lines: octosyllabic couplets. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 89%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.4 syllables.
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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 AABBCC- downA · crownA · bandsB · handsB · skiesC · liesC · more
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 |
|---|---|---|
| No more for him, where hills look down, | 8 | ········ |
| Shall Morning crown | 4 | ·/˘· |
| Her rainy brow with blossom bands!-- | 8 | ·/˘··/˘· |
| The Morning Hours, whose rosy hands | 8 | ·/˘/·/˘· |
| Drop wildflowers of the breaking skies | 8 | ·/···/˘· |
| Upon the sod 'neath which he lies.-- | 8 | ········ |
| No more for him! No more! No more! | 8 | ········ |
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