Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Village in Germany
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.
About this text
Copied from a Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Village in Germany is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems of Coleridge, Project Gutenberg ebook #8208; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
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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.
See other poems in trochaic 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 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.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Dormi, Jesu! Mater ridet | 8 | ··/˘/˘·· |
| 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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