Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Village in Germany

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) · 1796–1817

trochaic tetrameter · AABCCB · 6 lines · from Poems of Coleridge

Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridetQuæ tarn dulcem somnum videt,Dormi, Jesu! blandule!Si non dormis, Mater plorat,Inter fila cantans orat,Blande, veni, somnule.

Words in this poem

tarn n.
A mountain lake or pool. [OE. terne, Icel. tjörn.]

Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.

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Form and metre

Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Village in Germany is 6 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes AABCCB. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 88%). 92% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.5 syllables.

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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. 1 AABCCB ridetA · videtA · blanduleB · ploratC · oratC · somnuleB
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 trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.

LineSyl.Stress
Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet8··/˘/˘··
Quæ tarn dulcem somnum videt,8········
Dormi, Jesu! blandule!7··/˘···
Si non dormis, Mater plorat,8····/˘··
Inter fila cantans orat,8˘//˘····
Blande, veni, somnule.6······

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